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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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    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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    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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    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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    It was the police view that a tire caught in an exposed streetcar track was a contributing factor.  (source)
    factor = thing that caused something to happen
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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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    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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    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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    But in all likelihood, a greater factor in the difference between the two rooms was their provenance.  (source)
    factor = something that affects a result or outcome
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    On a bombing run with the Norden sight, Louie would visually locate the target, make calculations, and feed information on air speed, altitude, wind, and other factors into the device.  (source)
    factors = things that affect a result or outcome
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    The Society couldn't overlook a factor like that, even when they allowed the Markhams to adopt Ky.  (source)
    factor = thing that affects a result or outcome
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    It would take as long as an hour and a half some days, depending on traffic, stalled trains, weather, and other factors, but we would make it there.  (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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    But I'd never factored a daughter into the equation.  (source)
    factored = considered (for affect on a result or outcome)
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    That's what you're not factoring in.  (source)
    factoring = considering (the affect on a result or outcome)
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    When you factor in the river bend and full moon, there are precisely one hundred and twenty-nine sites to be surveyed in this country.  (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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    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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    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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    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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    The problem arises when the additional information of gender and race is factored into a decision about an individual patient.  (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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    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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rare meaning

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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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