figured out

verb

past tense of figure out
as in solved
to find an answer for through reasoning a book of brainteasers that even a really clever person won't have an easy time figuring out

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Recent Examples of figured out Transformation scenes can be unintentionally laughable, and no one has fully figured out how to make a wolf-human hybrid look less like a fall-season impulse buy at Home Depot and more like a terrifically terrifying beast. — Eve Batey, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026 But Griffin and his inner circle long ago figured out that anyone who snoozes at the wheel gets run off the road. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026 And the company has figured out ways to pay tribute to Karpen. — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2026 Planetary scientist Hiroki Karyu and his research team at Tohoku University in Sendai City, Japan, finally figured out how the haze formed using a microphysical model. — Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 1 Oct. 2026 Those victories flying off island airstrips might have been the final legacy of the Corsair, but British Royal Navy pilots figured out how to fly it off carriers, according to the museum. — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026 Kuss figured out that spending May in Italy, July in France and late summer in Spain would, paradoxically, give him more time at home with his young family this year. — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 There’s the basic practical question of how we’re supposed to believe that nobody has figured out who Russ is after more than six episodes. — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026 Although some under-16 accounts were initially deleted, Teachman said, children figured out ways to bypass age-verification checks. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for figured out
  1. solved
  2. answered
  3. unraveled
  4. resolved
  5. worked out
Verb
  • When plans for a trip are disrupted, for example, ask whether the problem is within your control and can be solved.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Hospitality, retail and tech are recruiting people who’ve already solved the problem banks are trying to solve, just in a different building.
    — Paul Davis, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of solved
Verb
  • The question is more easily answered by Percherette than by even the most attentive Austen characters.
    — Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Department officials said that calls will still be answered by human operators and not bots.
    — Jakob McWhinney, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of answered
Verb
  • Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have unraveled some of the atmospheric secrets of a bizarre, blisteringly hot world that has the consistency of marshmallow.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Rice said when Perera was released from the hospital, the working relationship unraveled as well as the romantic one.
    — Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of unraveled
Verb
  • That one has now been resolved and HBO Max is busy building around the world and commissioning local originals under Sarah Aubrey and a team of commissioners in different countries.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The contracts are resolved using the official data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
    — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of resolved
Verb
  • But this worked out — the Chiefs got closer to their mission.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Kevin Mannix worked out of the San Francisco Police Department’s Taraval Station for 27 years before retiring, according to the association in June 2018.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of worked out

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“Figured out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/figured%20out. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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