Example Sentences

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“We had figured it out,” she said, describing how she was “low-key” optimistic.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Disney also just saw its $1 billion deal with OpenAI collapse after the AI company pulled the plug on its short-video-generating product Sora, which had figured to play a central role in the arrangement.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

By November, there was a large cohort of technically-minded people who had figured out how to use coding agents, and they were prime candidates for something bigger.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

My sermon — which I would deliver sloppily in the smoking section at parties, annoyingly self-satisfied and convinced that I had figured it all out — became this: If you’re cool now, you’re cool forever.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

If she had figured he had come for a place to breathe, she might have been more understanding—even if she had wondered about him some.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt