as in to solve (for)
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How did Cordelia Cupp figure out who killed A.B. Wynter?—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
22 Mar. 2025 -
One quickly figures out which friends are open to the world, open to the technology of the 21st Century, and which would prefer to live in 1983, or even 1953.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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Single Americans making $150,000 fall under the 22 percent federal tax bracket, which equates to around $24,000 deducted from their paychecks for U.S. income taxes.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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Instead, a few times a day the payment authority (in the US, this is almost always the Federal Reserve) will collate millions of check payments made, and then deduct or add the total amount that specific banks owe or are owed when all those payments are processed.—
Dylan Matthews,
Vox,
5 Mar. 2025
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The trip was scaled back after pushback from Greenlandic and Danish officials.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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The trip was later scaled back to just a visit to the space base.—
Hannah Demissie,
ABC News,
28 Mar. 2025
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And organizations across the food system have been very active in measuring the scale of food waste—because having that data is a crucial step toward solving these challenges.—
Danielle Nierenberg,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Aftershocks followed, one of them measuring a strong 6.4 magnitude.—
Time,
Time,
28 Mar. 2025
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