it figures

Also, that figures. It's (or that's) reasonable; it makes sense. For example, Hanging it upside down sounds like a weird idea, but it figures, or It figures that they won't be coming this year, or So she's complaining again; that figures. This idiom alludes to reckoning up numbers. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]

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It figures to be an ongoing process, one that could have season-defining implications for the Dodgers’ World Series title defense.

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As she put it to Sauer: “Let’s assume for the purpose of this that you are wrong about the merits, that the government is not allowed to do this under the Constitution. It seems to me that your argument is: ‘We get to keep on doing it until everyone who is potentially harmed by it figures out how to file a lawsuit, hire a lawyer, etc.’

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It figures to be another tense game.

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And it figures to get an additional boost next year when the World Cup is played in the U.S. for just the second time.

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It figures that she also doesn’t remember much about her record-breaking victory against Long Beach State.

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