solved

past tense of solve

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of solved The official list still remains peppered with unsolved problems, although OpenAI recently announced that its unreleased internal AI model has solved more than 100 open questions. — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026 Feldman's father Harley kept in touch with Scottsdale police, never giving up hope that it would be solved. — Megan Fahrney, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026 Researchers at Romania’s Horia Hulubei National Institute have now solved this speed challenge by producing images with an artificial muon beam for the first time. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026 That is, if a problem can be described and solved by combinations of tokens, it can potentially be solved by LLMs. — Yifeng Yin, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026 The puzzle that is the Atlanta Beltline’s main trail has been solved. — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Finding out what creates the lower haze on Venus unexpectedly solved another mystery. — Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 1 Oct. 2026 Cage solved my next problem by insisting that the way to discover new things is to overcome our dependence on our likes and dislikes, those supposed pillars of criticism. — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 Consider at least one mystery from that Emmys sketch, a glimpse of the SNL logo, potentially solved. — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 25 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for solved
Verb
  • Manager Dana Weigel stressed that everyone must be confident that all of Starliner’s problems have been resolved before putting astronauts back on board.
    — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Once the sunlight issue was resolved, the researchers faced radiation hurdles from the Van Allen belts created by the Earth’s magnetic field and which traps photons and electrons.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • How they are answered will have wide-ranging impacts for America’s health system, science, and patients.
    — Daniel Payne, STAT, 29 Sep. 2026
  • But the 49ers answered with a touchdown drive that was aided when Josh Sweat was called for roughing the passer after an apparent third-down stop.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Over the past 25 or so years, this country has unraveled in a lot of ways.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The firm unraveled in 2025 after prosecutors accused its founder and chief financial officer of concealing hundreds of millions of dollars in financial problems from lenders and investors, a case bolstered by the CFO’s guilty plea.
    — Alex Volonte, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026

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“Solved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solved. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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