Thesaurus results for SOLVED

solved

verb

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 Longer life is the achievement of our era, not a problem to be solved. — Jon Sabes, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026 While some of the Killing Fields cases outside of League City have been solved, many have not. — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026 All of these problems could, in principle, be solved by algorithms. — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026 Every field is in the uncertainty business Uncertainty is not a problem to be solved. — Aleeza Gerstein, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026 That problem is solved with All-Clad’s Outdoor Rotating Stone Pizza Oven. — Olivia Tarantino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026 More than 70,000 such reports have been filed annually since 2022, though the vast majority were solved within 30 days, police say. — Reuters, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026 The advice isn’t to ignore the past, but the past can’t be solved in a day. — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026 Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) may have solved the biggest drawback of electric vehicle range anxiety. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026

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If the lockout does go through all of 2027, do players not accrue any service time or will that be something that is negotiated/resolved when a deal is ultimately reached?

— Evan Drellich, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
The bill has cleared both the House and Senate, but differences between the two versions would need to be resolved before final passage.

— Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of resolved

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The Athletic’s Jacob Whitehead, Oliver Kay, Cerys Jones, Conor O’Neill, Nick Miller and Sebastian Stafford-Bloor have taken a look at the window and answered a series of questions.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Choose the few recurring decisions where the stakes are highest—often hiring, promotion and capital allocation—and require the four lenses to be answered before the decision closes.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of answered

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Later on Saturday, Pezeshkian called on state TV for a revival of the interim deal, which was signed on June 17 but quickly unraveled amid disagreements over what had been agreed, especially on the status of the Strait of Hormuz.

— Reuters, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2026
As curators unraveled the truth behind the images, the album soon made headlines and ignited a debate that reverberated far beyond the museum walls.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026

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