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Alden Wicker, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
To solve these problems, a team of medical experts, researchers, and engineers at Northwestern University set out to design a new wearable capable of providing highly detailed, continuous, real-time information regardless of a patient’s environment.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2023
Bard will also allow teens to type or upload a math equation and then provide step-by-step instructions on how to solve it.
—Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
The point in these earlier scenes is less about solving a crime than the Mystery of the Human Heart, and how the couple’s sometimes reckless adventures will bring them together and drive them apart.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
And going forward, figuring out how to keep the lights on during heat waves worsened by fossil fuel combustion — especially after sundown, when solar panels stop generating — is a challenge policymakers are still working to solve.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
Players are challenged to solve 15 mystery missions, as cards prompt them to find objects and follow characters through the game.
—Maya Polton, Parents, 7 Nov. 2023
And if everybody did the same, in and around their neighborhoods, around their arenas and stadiums, universities and places of business, the problem would certainly be lessened if not solved.
—Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
Then the writers had to solve the challenge of making unfathomable scales of time and change feel intelligible, at least a bit.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
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Word History
Middle English, to loosen, from Latin solvere to loosen, solve, dissolve, from sed-, se- apart + luere to release — more at secede, lose
circa 1533, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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