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It Figures

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What does It Figures mean?

phrase

  1. Used to indicate that a preceding event or statement by another is an unsurprising accompaniment of known facts and circumstances.

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As to the Mariage de Victorine, it figures every year on the programme of the Conservatoire competitions.
René DoumicGeorge Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and WritingsTranslated by Alys HallardProject Gutenberg ebook #138
It becomes an object of study--that is, of inquiry and reflection--when it figures as a factor to be reckoned with in the completion of a course of events in which one is engaged and by whose outcome one is affected.
John DeweyDemocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of EducationProject Gutenberg ebook #852