Open
Work out
Work out verb - To find an answer for through reasoning.
Both terms in one sentence
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The Doctor's ability to open a locked door with his mind, in particular the same sort of locked door that in "The Day of the Doctor" three Doctors couldn't open without having their sonics work out the calculations for a few hundred years.
- It doesn't work out; another character rescues her first, and then the heroine figures out what happened and reveals it in open court.
Source: Engineered Heroics - In the former page quote, Spider-Man and Daredevil are open to the occasional team-up but do work pretty exclusively alone, and attempts to change that generally don't work out.
Source: I Work Alone
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