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How to use the word figuring in a Sentence?

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We are now in a post-Dobbs world. So it’s not only figuring out how to manage an FDA-approved medication, it’s figuring out how to manage an FDA-approved medication in a dramatically fractured national landscape of state laws around abortion, the intention is to create as much chaos and confusion in the system.

Kirsten Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With a new law like this, they may now be intimidated and discouraged by the legal hoops required to use social media out of fear of authority or their parents, or fear of losing their privacy at a time when teens are figuring out who they are.

Lucy Ivey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think everybody’s still kicking the tires and getting a look at it and figuring out what our best plan going forward is.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would say that it has been a constant adventure being with Augustin, i think we’ve approached life like that, whether it was planning our wedding, and figuring out how to make it the biggest party possible with all our friends from different cultures and how to mix that. Then having kids, that’s been a real adventure, as well. We’re trying to make that fun and bring them up in a really global way.

Bolivia Augustin and Michelle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We want to start with a clean slate, coming at this from maybe a new fresh perspective, looking at what’s been done in the past. What legislation currently in place isn’t working? And figuring out either do we expand on that or do we pull back and look at a new policy that would actually be much more effective?

Stephanie Bice

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We just need to get much more systematic in terms of figuring out both how we protect against it, but also how we can quickly put the system back together again, once a problem arises.

Granger Morgan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I definitely wanted to do something, we were kind of figuring out what the Bills and the Sabres were doing, just as far as what was the message. I knew they would probably do something and what message were they trying to send. It ended up being kind of the ‘3’ was the symbol.

Jessica Pegula

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are trying to work with the incident command for these wildfires to do a real assessment, we see there are thousands of fish floating downstream, but we really are having a difficult time figuring out how bad it is.

Craig Tucker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The scariest thing that I’ve ever done is get a divorce. But it’s been the best thing that I’ve ever done and that has really jump-started my journey on self-love and figuring out who I am now.

Kristin Cavallari

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It’s not just necessarily one particular moment but it’s more so just the overall bond that we had and the closeness of the group with Shane and I being the captains and just kind of figuring out how to get better and just the ups and downs you go through during the season, regardless of how good you are, as a matter of fact, my wife and I were just talking about the loss to this year’s team, the loss to [North] Carolina for [coach Mike Krzyzewski’s final home game] and I said look, you know, it sucks. I hated that was the last game. I was there. And I said it's kind of like my senior year. I lost to Maryland and that was my senior night and we just talked about the next time we come back in this gym [Cameron Indoor Stadium] it’s going to be to thank you guys for supporting us and being with us as we’re national champions. That’s what we did my senior year. It was just beautiful. Coming back, addressing the Cameron Crazies in the crowd and raising that banner for them.

Brian Bahr/ALLSPORT -RRB- James

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When you are in crisis, there is often a lot of awkwardness to figuring out what people can do, it's a lot easier to ask for something on behalf of someone else than to ask for it yourself. Knowing that you can get little bits of support( from many different people) instead of being so dependent on a few individuals gives reassurance without the baggage of feeling dependent or guilty.

Vanessa Bohns

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Department of Historic Resources is still figuring out exactly what’s in them, how to preserve them, that process is going to take some time, so no one is ready to decide just yet what happens to those.

Greg Werkheiser

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’re just playing well together and making shots, figuring things out, we do n’t have time to do too much and we’re all aware what our roles are going to be.

Kyle Lowry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They [the press] couldn't figure out what they were trying to say about you, they were mad at themselves for not figuring it out and taking it out on me.

Dax Shepard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We went a couple of years, a lot of counseling, figuring things out, and as we went through this process, I ’m looking for a spark – something to initiate some form of desire for a relationship with each other, and in this time, it has never manifested.

Kody Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We had to keep pushing through, to deliver this book so that other people could do the same, this end product and getting the story down on the page could help other readers and people do the same things we were doing, in a way our characters really became a proxy for us on the page, they are having trouble figuring out how to talk about race. And there's a lot of misunderstandings and apprehensions and fears and even blind spots. And those were, I mean, not identical because the circumstances were different between Jo and I in real life and our characters, but the overall dynamic was [ similar. ].

Christine Pride

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We’re taking it day by day, we’re figuring out what our dos and don’ts are. That’s what the season is for. We have one ultimate goal, and that’s to win the championship.

Russell Westbrook

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When people can see that, they relate with that, they kind of think to themselves, ‘Well, it’s been done before,’ ‘So-and-so is figuring it out, so maybe I can give it a try.’.

Brad McLeod

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This country doesn't want generals, figuring out what orders we are going to accept and do or not, that's not our job. The principle of civilian control of the military is absolute, it's critical, to this republic.

Mark Milley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It would be an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign because my advice is not taken, this country doesn't want generals figuring out what orders we are going to accept and do or not. That's not our job.

Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She is a master of the political philosophy of Sir Mick Jagger. That great, British, political scientist who said ‘You can’t always get what you want. But you get what you need, she has an extraordinary capacity for figuring out what people need as opposed to what they want and knitting it together.

John Lawrence

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And I cried, maybe The No. 7 seed’s the reason I was emotional in the match. Now she needs a bit of a break before figuring out what’s next on her reading list.

Iga Swiatek

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They are figuring out how to cover 60 more days, what is the new math for how much they can recoup from rental assistance ?

Greg Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think with the team and the capabilities of the shooters that we have on this team, that we need to generate more 3s, obviously, they’re switching a lot and staying home on shooters. So there’s just a way of figuring it out.

Devin Booker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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