solve
verb (used with object)
to find the answer or explanation for; clear up; explain.
solved
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past participleof solve.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof solve.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
solveverb (used with object)to find the answer or explanation for; clear up; explain.
Example Sentences
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Researchers estimate that the remaining technical challenges could be solved within the next 5-10 years.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Days later, seeing online rumors that a competitor had solved Millennium problems, OpenAI turned the system loose on all six that remain open.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Navier-Stokes is one of the seven deepest and most difficult unresolved questions known as the “Millennium Prize Problems”; since 2000, only one had ever been solved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Some crimes solved in recent years would have been "impossible" without Flock, he adds.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Mathematicians ignored the logical and philosophical troubles with adding infinite zeros—especially since indivisibles or infinitesimals, as they came to be called, finally solved a long-standing puzzle: the problem of the tangent.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
