Study
Work out
Work out verb - To find an answer for through reasoning.
Both terms in one sentence
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The protagonist's best friend in the CIA is a "crateologist", whose job it is to study photographs of crates and work out what's in them.
Source: Crate Expectations - Double-subverted in Community when the study group cannot work out what happened to Annie's missing pen.
Source: Arkham's Razor - Levi manages to start working on making a dictionary for him via rune magic (the runes hear what he says and try to find the closest word that fits) and Naruto spams dozens of clones to either study with her or listen to everyone talk and work out the language.
Source: Translation Convention
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