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[solv] / sɒlv /


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Give employees more time to solve problems, help customers and perhaps make their shifts a little less frantic.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Traditional atomic clocks solve this problem by using the energy transitions of electrons in atoms as a stable reference.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

If brain fog and anxiety are concerns, simply regulating nutritional intake can solve for that, no matter what your cortisol tests say.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

"The only way out of this to reduce gas prices in a meaningful way is solve one or both of the geopolitical tensions that are causing high prices," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“A great many costumes went into this one costume,” she thought, pleased with both her disguise and the potential math lesson, but there was no time to solve the costume/costumes problem just now.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Side-eyeing the people responsible for the problem while dutifully stepping out of their way solves that tricky equation.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

The dishwasher camera tailors washes for optimal energy efficiency and finally solves the mystery of what goes on inside there during the cycle.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

From McHugh’s perspective, the data center solves several of the area’s collective problems, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

The pumpkin-spice latte effect solves what has previously been a mystery: Why is September the worst month of the calendar for the stock market?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

I’m not sure whether to invite her in or close the door while I change, but she solves this dilemma by bustling in and sitting on the bed.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

The longstanding problem of calculating one’s location appears to have been solved by the Global Positioning System.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

This company says it has solved that problem.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Hunter Hunt, CEO of Hunt Energy Holdings, said he was confident that such "infrastructural weaknesses" could be solved "quite quickly."

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang has largely dismissed calls for tighter AI regulations, arguing that rogue agents are an engineering problem that can be solved.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

She wanted to hang on to her clue until she'd solved the case.

From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene

By solving the mystery of chirality, Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai worked out how to design chemical reactions to produce much more of the desired version of a molecule.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“What’s clear is everyone wants a path to solving this crisis.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

“We’re solving the crude dilemma, but we are not solving the product dilemma.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

When the original university was founded by Andrew Carnegie, the aim was to create a hands-on environment for students to apply their knowledge to industrial challenges and real-world problem solving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The key to solving the actual genetic code was to map the elements of a sequence in an RNA chain to the sequence of a protein chain.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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