as in to solve
to find an answer for through reasoning
I was able to puzzle out the riddle in a fairly short time
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Instead, Kit and Sam use their knowledge of the animal kingdom to solve problems in different animal communities.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
20 May 2025 -
Already, the technology has shown its capacity to solve complex problems, optimize processes and inform enhanced decision-making.—
Chris Brown,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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But things quickly take a dark turn with the planet seeming to unravel.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2025
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Trump’s entire economic agenda is contingent on the tax and spending bill’s passage at the same time the bill’s passage could trigger bond market vigilantes to unravel Trump’s entire economic agenda.—
Phil Mattingly,
CNN Money,
22 May 2025
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Los Angeles has plenty of questions to answer about the future of the roster, and the front office will be very busy.—
Matt Levine,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 May 2025
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Your Friends & Neighbors wrapped up its freshman season by answering one big question — who killed Paul? — and left us pondering a few others.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
30 May 2025
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Hanna-Barbera figured out how to make do with more rudimentary animation, cutting in half the number of original frames per second.—
Brooks Barnes,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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The naming practices can frustrate efforts to track the chemicals in food, to measure how much of the stuff people are taking in, and even to figure out precisely which chemicals a scientific study evaluated, researchers said.—
David Hilzenrath,
Miami Herald,
21 May 2025
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Increasingly, all of this data can be collected and resolved within a client’s organization (or in combination with partners) to facilitate greater control while opening up new opportunities in co-marketing and personalization, Camoosa says.—
Acxiom Contributor,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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The primary issue for those users is security, and this has now been resolved for Microsoft 365 apps.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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“Puzzle (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puzzle%20%28out%29. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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