Example Sentences

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The film waits too long to explain what’s happening with William — long after most audience members will have figured it out.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2023

Now that you have declined and received frosty responses, these parents will have figured out that you are not going to be available to them for backup.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2021

Hopefully by then, golf’s powers will have figured out a better way to fit everything in.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 21, 2016

I’m looking forward to “Reasons to Be Retiring,” though I seriously doubt that a geriatric Greg will have figured himself out by then.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2013

Before I reach my birthday, as is the case every year, I will have figured out a socially acceptable way to spend New Year's.

From Slate • Dec. 27, 2012