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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Departments ranging from defense, education and transportation to housing and financial regulation would be affected in a prolonged shutdown, while pressure would mount quickly to resolve disruptions rippling through the economy.
From Barron's
It also stems from a fundamental reassessment of Washington’s resolve.
This extreme puffiness helps resolve a long-standing question in planet formation.
From Science Daily
One of the study's key findings helps resolve a long running debate about Jupiter's composition.
From Science Daily
Progress, as he understood it, meant refusing to be cowed by fear—a resolve he said he first witnessed among Jamaican anticolonial activists, and later on the front lines of the civil-rights movement.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
