How to Use suss out in a Sentence

suss out

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  • That’s not the only way to suss out how to best support them.
    — Anna Borges, SELF, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Leone was tasked to suss out what Botha was really like.
    — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 July 2024
  • Really suss out the role and create a very clear and compelling job spec.
    — Bill Stauffer, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Experts have some ways to suss out whether or not a job posting is real.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024
  • The original post left that distinction up to the public to suss out.
    — Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Indeed, these days, anyone can suss out with a simple Google search how tricks are done.
    — Vanessa Armstrong, The Atlantic, 17 June 2024
  • On social media, college kids with one psych class under their belt subject couples to the green-line test to suss out cheaters.
    — Vulture, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The platform offers many hints and one surefire way to suss out impersonators.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Nov. 2022
  • In the age of the internet, where options are endless and quality can be hard to suss out, the task of selection can be overwhelming.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The other spy, identical except in blinding white, peeks out from behind a tree, trying to suss out what his rival is up to.
    — Gyasi Hall, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2023
  • But whether or not that happens via your sheets and comforter or from direct skin-to-skin contact is difficult to suss out, Dr. Russo says.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 3 Dec. 2022
  • To make that determination, the SSA relies on a jobs database to suss out if there are any jobs the applicant can still perform.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 24 June 2024
  • In a recent study published in Sleep Health, researchers looked at 8,000 websites to suss out some stereotypical myths about sleep.
    — Good Housekeeping, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Leaf peepers need only check online foliage trackers to suss out which locations put on a fiery show — and when.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 23 Sep. 2023
  • But that’s just fine with Deux herself, who admits to sometimes being paranoid that celebs will suss out her identity.
    — Kate Coyne, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Cornered in an outhouse with the Captain, the General suspects there must be a spy who’s sowing discontent among the refugees and orders the Captain to suss out the culprit.
    — Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024
  • If physicists ever do suss out a TOE, the advances to emerge from it could perhaps profoundly alter the course of human history.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Then, the top spots in every country were ranked both globally and regionally to suss out which spot is indeed the world’s most relaxing.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Bridgeton, which runs models to suss out the trades such firms are making, estimates that the average trend follower lost about 6% through June, after having made 27% last year.
    — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 20 July 2023
  • District officials are working to suss out the reasons why older students might be missing.
    — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Inside, an employee took my glasses and plopped them into a machine to suss out my prescription so someone behind the scenes could add the right lens inserts.
    — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • Almost a decade in, Hattie B's (which is itself now part of the history of hot chicken) still has folks trying to suss out its coveted seasoning recipe.
    — Timothy Charles Davis, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The thinking goes that Amazon might be able to suss out your income based on your house size, or your family status based on the presence of toys left on the floor by kids, or your need for furniture based on a lack of obstacles.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Cosmologists are now poring over the details of the observations to suss out sources of uncertainty.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Mahmood went down the rabbit hole to suss out exactly how tangled this bureaucracy is for a Chronicle opinion piece.
    — Sfnext: Fixing Our City Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 May 2023
  • Stamos-Buesig wondered aloud, based on the particular hue that the reagent had turned, if the drug might also contain heroin, which could take another sample and a squirt of another reagent to suss out.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2022
  • Health authorities have also used the metric to help suss out whether Covid-19 was spreading or retreating in a community.
    — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 13 June 2021
  • The effects of climate change can vary dramatically from place to place, which is why it’s been difficult to suss out the bigger picture with snowpack until recently.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Still, that hasn't stopped scientists from trying to suss out their evolutionary benefits.
    — Jonathan Shipley, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022
  • And while the pairs emotionally duke it out onscreen, fans are eagerly trying to suss out which ones will ultimately stick together.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 23 Aug. 2023

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