as in to resolve
to find an answer for through reasoning
it took me half an hour to solve the logic puzzle
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Recent Examples of solve
No matter what happens, USC’s next president will have a serious financial crisis to solve, a furious faculty to calm and a tense political climate to navigate.
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Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
That’s the demand problem that PJM is focused on, which is not Maryland’s problem to solve.
—David S. Lapp, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2025
But whereas some closers wouldn’t waste time trying to solve that problem, Díaz has worked hard on being quicker home.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 7 July 2025
Advocacy groups including The Connecticut Coalition to Protect Bears, which formed in 2021, maintain that a bear hunt would not help solve minimizing these kinds of interactions.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2025
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Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
That’s the demand problem that PJM is focused on, which is not Maryland’s problem to solve.
—David S. Lapp, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2025
But whereas some closers wouldn’t waste time trying to solve that problem, Díaz has worked hard on being quicker home.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 7 July 2025
Advocacy groups including The Connecticut Coalition to Protect Bears, which formed in 2021, maintain that a bear hunt would not help solve minimizing these kinds of interactions.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for solve
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In cases against another person or business, people are often trying to win damages, which can get complicated as judges resolve who deserves a share of the money and how much.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
22 July 2025
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Once leadership alignment is resolved, P&L performance accelerates—often within a single quarter.—
Carrie Moore,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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Lamine answered questions in Catalan from the Catalan press and others in Spanish, and towards the end of a press conference, he was asked about his activities away from the pitch.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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The agency failed to answer thousands of calls from flood survivors after allowing contracts for call-center workers to lapse one day after the disaster, according to The New York Times.—
Zoë Schlanger,
The Atlantic,
15 July 2025
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As Beth, Louis-Dreyfus is filled with surface confidence and performs her writerly role with ease—until the smallest crack appears and her sense of self begins to quietly unravel.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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Lucy Fry’s Rose, a woman haunted by trauma, ends up checking herself into an inn where reality seems to unravel, blurring the lines between past and present, and waking life and dreams.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
22 July 2025
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“Solve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solve. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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