make out

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to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information as best as I can make out, the police were informed of the incident but didn't think it was worth investigating

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    Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
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    Stephanie Slifer, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025
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    Nick Baumgardner, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Although the Kubernetes ecosystem offers many observability tools, these usually provide generalized errors and alerts that are hard to decipher for developers.
    Ben Ofiri, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025

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“Make out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/make%20out. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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