resolve
Usage
What are other ways to say resolve?
To resolve is to show firmness of purpose: He resolved to ask for a promotion. To determine is to arrive at a conclusion after reasoning or observation: He determined that there was no available path to victory. To decide is to make up one's mind as to what shall be done and the way to do it: He decided to go today.
Example Sentences
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He has been testing the alliance’s resolve for some time.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
But concrete benefits of the group are uncertain, he said, as "in times of crisis, these alliances have rarely allowed Iran to resolve its difficulties".
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Skubal’s resolve hasn’t been tested in exactly the way it will be on Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Social media giant Meta has reached a settlement with 29 US states to resolve a court case related to child safety on Facebook and Instagram.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
But any resolve she might have had about the matter disappeared as soon as they were back in Concord and their father’s word came down.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Enterprises only pay when the agent autonomously resolves an issue from start to end.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Analyst Andrew Lyons tells clients in a note that the promotion of Greg Ward to CEO resolves longstanding succession uncertainty in the latter stages of Shemara Wikramanayake’s eight-year tenure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Luckily, the illness resolves with antibiotics, and it’s not fatal.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
"What we've shown is that if space-time has this non-trivial topology, then it resolves one of the deadliest problems of the cosmological constant," said study co-author Stephon Alexander, a professor of physics at Brown.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
Or they may simply feel "unstable"; if you hear a chord with a dissonance in it, you may feel that the music is pulling you towards the chord that resolves the dissonance.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Over a decade later, the New York Times thought the problem hadn’t been resolved, wondering whether we were living through a cultural “standstill.”
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Most of the gripes against the concert-promoting giant could be resolved with a solution that has nothing to with antitrust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"I think it was right that he did so, but the issues are far from resolved," Robinson told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster on Friday.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
“It is unlikely that this debate will be resolved anytime soon,” Belton said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Dissonance and harmonic tension slowly resolved into warm chords—the sound was transcendent.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
The start date allowed for additional time to deal with matters of the court, such as resolving any disputes about what evidence can be presented, the judge wrote.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
"Contacts through the intelligence services are a positive development in and of themselves. It is too early to say how this will affect the process of resolving the crisis in our relations," Peskov said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
People haven’t yet created digital rituals for resolving them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Meanwhile, the U.S. and Iran are no closer to resolving their stalemate, and an agreement on shipping crude oil and crude products through the Strait of Hormuz remains elusive.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
My fingers and palms are already swelling with blisters, the pain resolving into a dull throbbing.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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