Thesaurus results for SOLVE

solve

verb

ˈsälv

Definition of solve next

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 Housing alone won’t solve this quickly, especially when units can cost $500,000 to $900,000 each and take years to build. —

Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026 Maud is determined to solve both. —

Literary Hub, 7 May 2026 Moving toward V8s could solve many of these problems. —

Luke Smith, New York Times, 6 May 2026 Even those beating the drum of the male-loneliness crisis seem convinced that the problem of men’s stunted emotional lives is easily solved: more group activities, less time online. —

Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for solve

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What The Dark Wizard does differently is grapple with Potter’s impenetrability without being able to resolve it, and consider how that indecision might change our perceptions of his life and his May 2015 death while BASE jumping in Yosemite.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 May 2026
Typically, those reviews have been resolved quickly, but standard times started stretching longer starting around August 2025, the association said.

— Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 7 May 2026