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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
suss .
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Examples
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Renee quickly susses out the situation and convinces Bree not to pull the trigger.
Top Moments: Late Night Settles a Beef and Revenge Gets Relative 2012
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A Parsons-educated fashion designer, Ms. Barnett susses out auto brands' priorities and creates wardrobes to match.
What to Wear That Says 'Buy This Porsche' Christina Binkley 2011
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Bob susses out that Phil gave away the tickets, and is really cross, until he gets some sugar from the grateful criminal ladies.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2010
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Bob susses out that Phil gave away the tickets, and is really cross, until he gets some sugar from the grateful criminal ladies.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2010
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While my scholarly training reading media texts has equipped me to look for internal contradictions and connections within and across texts (understood in my trade as "symptomatic" or "ideological" readings, see above), it seems trade publishing prefers its writers to engage in on the ground "detective work" where, if lucky, the writer susses out some small hidden key or amazing connection that will open the meaning of a text (hers and theirs).
The Possessed : Academics Going to the Trades Alexandra Juhasz 2010
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Kennicott susses out these themes through the ages:
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Doc, with the aid of Ham, Monk and Renny, quickly deduces the source of the spotting disease chemically tainted salt tablets ingested by workers in the broiling hot mill and susses out the saboteurs planted among the employees.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Hey, how about: Peretz is PJ Brown and Spackerman is Charlie Ward, and the rest susses out from there.
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Melanie, who actually has a brain, immediately susses out from Brett's conversation topics (new things; travel) that he's nowhere near ready to settle down and be monogamous.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: The Millionaire Matchmaker, Season 2 Premiere 2009
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Very quickly, Sutherland susses out that whatever the hell's going on at the Mayflower has something to do with... no, wait- don't get ahead of me - the mirrors.
A cry for pleh Arbogast 2009
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