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How to use the word figured in a Sentence?

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How can you have a star sign if you don't know the sign you were born in because the months reduce every year in 29 and 30 day months? And every 30 years your sign goes to the earlier sign aswell. Unless you look at the stars and can calculate backwards to the date of birth. Or you could just ask a psychic? Unless you can hear spirit yourself? Also the orbit and earth's tilting has been changing since time began so that would need to be figured in; because it depends on which sign it spins to face first as to the order of birth date.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by Gina.taylor
2 months ago

They haven’t figured out the debt limit yet, i’m happy to meet with McCarthy, but not on whether or not the debt limit gets extended. That’s not negotiable.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
12 months ago

For weeks, we would bring the nicest banana we could find in Berlin to the zoo, and she would always just straight eat it, there was some head scratching done. and we gradually figured out that it’s only brownish bananas that she peels. She never peels a beautiful yellow one.

Michael Brecht

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m sure someone saw, and I’m sure that somebody let it slide, because, again, if you’re in compliance with a lot of the big-picture things, perhaps they figured, well, they can survive something…What’s the likelihood that you’re gonna have $40 billion in withdrawals all at one time?

John Sedunov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I ’m retiring for good, i know the process was a pretty big deal last time, so when I woke up this morning, I figured I ’d just press record and let you guys know first.

Jed Jacobsohn/AP Hines

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As I was driving up this morning, I couldn't help but notice I'd never seen more smiling and happy demonstrators than I saw today, i think Swifties have figured something out, and they're very good at getting their message across.

Mike Lee

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I did not steal it, i bled on it because they were macing me and I couldn’t f**king see so I figured I am in her office. I got blood on her office. I put a quarter on her desk even though she ain’t f**king worth it. And I left her a note on her desk that says ‘Nancy, Bigo was here, you b***h.’.

Richard Barnett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I figured if the roof collapsed, the refrigerator might take some of the force of the roof coming down some.

Randall McCloud

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He said I’m the only person he knew that would come over so I figured I would go get him.

Jay Withey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I figured, hey someone else is going to get a Christmas miracle.

Patrick Holland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are no prospects. I’m an adult, and I didn’t exactly have all my life figured out, but all in all I understood what would happen next. Now nobody understands anything. People don’t even understand what will happen to them tomorrow. the things we held dear, like the memory of the Second World War, for instance, became completely compromised.

Andrei Soldatov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What they did that day, they did with impunity, figured there would be no action taken against them. I felt dehumanized, I felt little, i felt helpless, and it hurt me.

Michael Jennings

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was ghostly pale, which I figured at that point that he had been sprayed, and I was concerned, my cop alarm bells went off because if you get sprayed with pepper spray, you're going to turn red. He turned just about as pale as this sheet of paper.

Caroline Edwards

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t think I figured him out, i think I just executed the pitches that I wanted to execute today, and I think we sequenced better than we did last time.

Gerrit Cole

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

What this did to me and for me was take away my peace, take away the fact that my grandchildren and children can live in a community like this that's safe, i've got to do something to help change the laws. I don't know how I'm going to do it, I haven't quite figured that out yet, but I will. You'll see.

Karen Abrams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I just figured why not? i remembered I walked into this room and all of a sudden, these people started putting their hands on my shoulders. I thought it was strange. I certainly never experienced that before. The pastor then reads to me this Scripture from the bible and then says, ‘Would you like to receive the Lord into your heart?’.

Cristina Baker

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I figured it was coming. I was hoping not.

Chase Elliott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I figured this is something that I can tangibly do in this nightmare timeline Hillary Demmon are living in right now to concretely help some other families.

Read MoreShe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nothing we figured out, it was just don't let the first three quarters influence the fact that we still had a chance to win the game, shoot the shots you think you can make, play aggressive, take care of the ball. We did all of those things.

Steph Curry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're putting the pieces of the puzzle together, i think we figured out a few more pieces on Thursday, but we've got a few more pieces in front of us.

Tom Whitmeyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Immediately afterwards my reaction was' did that just happen ?' , initially, the other photographers and I were unsure if it was a planned part of the show or something else. Once Will Smith was back at Will Smith seat and yelling back to the stage, we figured it was not part of the script. And then I started looking through my camera for reactions.

Brian Snyder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We figured this would be a good day to celebrate the importance of napping because everyone is one hour more sleep-deprived than usual, the fact is that the majority of Americans are sleep-deprived even without Daylight Saving Time.

William Anthony.Naps

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[Russians] went ahead and just figured, ‘Let’s ban any potential source of truth out there and let’s make sure that it's going to be heavily penalized,’ the divide keeps on growing in how the general Russian population sees the war and how the rest of the world sees the war.

Vadim Ismakaev

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Citrus naturally produces those essential things, nature's kind of figured it out.

Camelia Miller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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