Thesaurus results for SOLVED

solved

verb

Definition of solved next

past tense of solve

as in resolved

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 solved Freddy the Detective solved his first mystery in 1927, a passing-of-the-deerstalker year in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his last Sherlock Holmes story and Agatha Christie introduced Miss Jane Marple. —

Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 9 May 2026 Problem solved fairly for everyone. —

Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026 The state Legislature has been focused on these issues the past couple of years, but some of these crises, especially the housing shortage, have been decades in the making and were never going to be solved overnight. —

Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 8 May 2026 Police in San Francisco said a cold case involving a woman who disappeared more than 50 years ago has been solved, with the help of DNA. —

Tim Fang, CBS News, 8 May 2026 Crimes were investigated and solved long before governments had the ability to collect pervasive location and behavioral data on ordinary people — and they are still solved today without it. —

Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 7 May 2026 Obtaining enough useable feedstock has been another challenge, and Woods said this problem also can be solved through collaboration. —

Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 6 May 2026 The mystery of lightning seemed solved. —

Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026 Again, that problem will be solved. —

Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2026

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The plea, entered four months before Cruz was placed on the minor-league restricted list, resolved the criminal case against him and, under the terms of the agreement, made his removal from the United States all but certain.

— Dennis Lin, New York Times, 9 May 2026
There weren’t as many glaring errors when the NFL also used replacement officials for one week of exhibition games and the opening week in 2001 before the labor dispute was resolved shortly after 9/11, and the regular officials returned in time when the season resumed after a one-week break.

— Rob Maaddi, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026