solve
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"The mystery we wanted to solve was whether this journey is actually possible," said Ojha, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
"It was like I had found the missing piece to a puzzle that I've been trying to solve for years," Lizzy says.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Hearing the futile spinning of tires, neighbors came out en masse to figure out how to solve the problem.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
He knows that obstacles are nothing but a puzzle for Wallace to solve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The glass would solve the crime it had witnessed.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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When we are asleep, our brain consolidates the memories of the day, processes emotions, and solves problems that defied it in the waking hours.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
My hope for this country: I just hope that everything that’s going on right now solves promptly, and then the world becomes a better place to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
“The innovation itself is remarkable. It’s not obvious to me which unmet consumer need evo uniquely solves, especially at roughly double the price of pods.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
This solves the overfunding concern that has kept families from contributing aggressively.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
But the real conundrum that heredity solves is much more general: What is the nature of instruction that allows an organism to build a nose—any nose—in the first place?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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“I’ve never solved a problem so quickly, before or after.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
You would have thought we would have solved this sort of thing with COVID, but we haven’t.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Northumbrian Water said the EA would be carrying out more water quality tests at Cullercoats to determine if the repaired sewage leaks had finally solved the site's long-running pollution problems.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
“But until this mystery is solved, it is best to avoid these foods altogether.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
He then immigrated to Syracuse, where he solved engineering problems for the king.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Despite those comparable results, the women who ate within an eight- to nine-hour period performed significantly better on tests measuring spatial planning and problem solving than those who continued eating across 12 hours.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Add solving those problems to Ms. Fujimori’s to-do list.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
AI's progress has been fast: at the 2024 IMO, Google achieved a silver-medal score, solving four of the six problems over two to three days.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
A spokesperson said: "We continue to believe that the L&VW plan is by far the fastest and most reliable route to solving Thames Water's complex problems and improving outcomes for customers and the environment."
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
But solving one problem just created a bigger problem.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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