puzzle out

"It was a pleasure to puzzle out the findings of the study together by uniting the team's expertise in data analysis and cell biology," said Tobias Gerber, another of the study's lead authors.

But Maitlis says she spent years "trying to puzzle out" what the words meant.

The prize for puzzling out the best approach could be a spot near the top of every ballot in the country this fall.

He even began to dislike his friends back home for lacking the powers of logic to puzzle out where he was so they could come to his rescue.

Once they had the pseudorandom graph in place, they still had to puzzle out several pieces of math.