Figure
Figure verb - To come to a judgment about after discussion or consideration.
Open up
Open up verb - Cause to open or to become open.
Both terms in one sentence
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Buying enough items from him will eventually open up a quest chain in which he asks you to figure out what would drive a man to leave his unborn child.
Source: Video Game / Dragon's Dogma - When they open up to each other and start talking about their childhoods and their piloting experiences, they figure out that Gendo and SEELE are keeping things from them and realize that they're being used to further some kind of sinister scheme.
Source: Unwitting Pawn -
The bandits figure the safe must be a ruse, especially when the railways are hardly reliable, and attack him on the way back and open up the carpet rolls — which are empty, of course, and Scrooge asks whether the bandit lord hadn't noticed his sending the safe along before.
Source: Kansas City Shuffle
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