Sample Sentences for
factor
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factor as in:  It was the deciding factor.

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    In the second paragraph, the narrator's focus shifts from factors making her unhappy to identification of possible solutions to her unhappiness.
    factors = things (that influence an outcome)
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    You had to know Tempest was going to factor into the Third Gate somehow.  (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
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    As reapings go, this one at least has a slight entertainment factor.  (source)
    factor = something that affects a result or outcome
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    In this case, the dominant factor was Rudy.  (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
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    There are several factors involved in this engagement.  (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
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    Whatever Dumbledore said, Harry had had time to think over the summer, and had concluded that Snape's snide remarks to Sirius about remaining safely hidden while the rest of the Order of the Phoenix were off fighting Voldemort had probably been a powerful factor in Sirius rushing off to the Ministry the night that he had died.  (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
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    All of the factors — disposition, energy level, intelligence, and interests — had to correspond and to interact perfectly.  (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
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    That's really the limiting factor to life support.  (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
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    Sometimes they're caused by the interaction of many genes, possibly in combination with environmental factors.  (source)
    factors = influences (things that affect other things)
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    He would dispense with love; it was not now a factor.  (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
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    I wrote that children of bipolar parents are hit with double risk factors: first, because they are genetically predisposed to mood disorders, and second, because of the stressful environment and poor parenting of parents with such disorders.  (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
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    Yeah, he believes Malik is going to be able to identify some factor in tuatara blood that makes them age slowly, and then he's going to 'cure death,'  (source)
    factor = something that affects a result or outcome
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    A few miles away it was joined to the ocean, so that its movements were governed by unimaginable factors like the Gulf Stream, the Polar Ice Cap, and the moon.  (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
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factor as in:  factor it into your thinking

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Did you factor maintenance costs into your budget?
factor = include consideration of
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    Be sure to factor the cost of insurance into your decision when you think about buying a car.
    factor = include for consideration
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    My rank can't be as bad as it used to be, especially after I beat Molly, but it might not be good enough to get me in the top ten at the end of initiation, especially when the Dauntless-born initiates are factored in.  (source)
    factored = considered (for affect on a result or outcome)
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    "There's one thing this Matt Ridley bloke hasn't factored in," I said.  (source)
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    They've promoted the Ultimate Intelligence Project as a way to avoid rash decisions, to delay until all variables can be factored.  (source)
    factored = considered (for affect on a result or outcome)
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    I'm really not in the mood to divvy up everything into eleven equal parts, factoring in age, body weight, and physical output.  (source)
    factoring = considering (the affect on a result or outcome)
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    For us this would be a technical operation, but they factor politics into everything they do.  (source)
    factor = include consideration of (for the affect on a result or outcome)
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    Every piece of information she receives factors into her strategy, and she won't tell me what time it is unless she decides that providing the information is more useful than withholding it.  (source)
    factors = is considered (for affect on a result or outcome)
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    It took years before I began to accept the fact that the nebulous "white man's world" wasn't as free as it looked; that class, luck, religion all factored in as well; that many white individuals' problems surpassed my own, often by a lot; that all Jews are not like my grandfather and that part of me is Jewish too.  (source)
    factored = considered (for affect on a result or outcome)
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    Given that the current output of the Very Large Array is only eight point six times ten to the sixth joules per second, even factoring for the projected rate of increase, subtracting anticipated heat dissipation, it will require some six months to observe noticeable heating, much less melting, of the material.  (source)
    factoring = considering (the affect on a result or outcome)
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    It's said to be cheaper to execute a man than to keep him in prison for life—but in fact, when you factor in the cost of eleven years of appeals, paid for with public funds, it costs about a third more to execute a prisoner than to sentence him to life in prison.  (source)
    factor = include consideration of (for the affect on a result or outcome)
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    For the freshmen majority in this survey course, a new score will, in moments, be factored into each student's personal approval rating: a tracking poll on the issue of whether their acceptance to Brown was, in fact, some sort of terrible mistake.  (source)
    factored = considered (for affect on a result or outcome)
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    The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn't much, and then call that God.  (source)
    factoring = considering (the affect on a result or outcome)
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    And that didn't factor in all the feeding, kennel maintenance, phone calls, dealing with clients, and paperwork.  (source)
    factor = consider (the affect on a result or outcome)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    Carefully noting the datum in its corresponding square, on a separate sheet of paper Nina divided the figure by a factor, carried its remainder, subtracted the difference, and so on and so forth, until she rounded the solution to the second decimal.  (source)
    factor = divisor (a number by which another number is divided)
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    But as time went on, I found that my list of things we couldn't do, places we couldn't go to, had begun to exceed my ideas for those we could by a significant factor.  (source)
    factor = multiple or amount
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