Is there a way to force/help Google pull images from the article itself instead of the first page if crawls?

I asked a similar question in the past and was told that it’s basically how Google operates—it indexes the first image it finds. I’m trying to figure out a way to make Google use the image from the article itself instead of pulling the featured image from my blog page.

To clarify, I have a blog where all of my articles use a featured image. Google displays my articles just fine in search results, but there’s no image beside it. If I click on image results, my image is nowhere to be found or, at times, is displayed at the bottom. If I click on the image, I can see that it pulled it from my blog instead of the article itself. This results in my article being displayed in the search results with no image beside it since the image itself is associated with the blog page.

Is there a way to avoid this? Is there anything I can do to help it pull from the article so that when the article appears in results, the image is beside it?

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