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figuring out
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One of the first steps in Parker figuring out his own way, of course, was dropping out of Berklee to avoid becoming a teacher.—
Grayson Haver Currin,
Pitchfork,
30 Apr. 2026 -
So, after figuring out that an evil scientist was using Loki’s scepter to build an artificial-intelligence system, Stark and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) pop it into the Avengers Tower’s mainframe.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Solving (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solving%20%28for%29. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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