to be able to understand something or to solve a problem
to understand what someone is like and why they behave in the way that they do
Beyond the fact that they evidently had a great deal of money, she could not figure out anything about them.
Bob meanwhile was wracking his brains trying to figure out what could have happened.
I couldn’t figure out what the teacher was talking about.
Incredibly competent yet doubted from many sides, for reasons Brad couldn't quite figure out.
Tell you what; I'm goin' to figure out some kind of a badge.
We had to figure out the connection between the two events.
figures out
figuring out
figured out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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