to find a solution
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2.7
- phrasal verb
:
encontrar una solución
- Someone has to take responsibility to find a solution to this problem.
- find a solution to the problem
- try to find a solution
- work on finding a solution
Often times it means find a solution where we can avoid a courtroom.
- Often times it means find a solution where we can avoid a courtroom.
- However, The Economist thinks that they have found a solution.
- So one group of Raiders found a solution to this.
- humor me and take two minutes to try to find a solution.
- Once I find a solution, I can stop because I know it's the shortest path.
- One had to find a solution.
- So far, however, physicists have not found a solution, or at least not one that they can all agree on.
- So we had to redesign it and well, we found a solution.
- In the Franco Algerian situation, things were even worse in terms of finding a solution.
- So I had this idea in the back of my head for years, and now I think I've found a solution and I am thrilled.
- Well, you're you're pick some algorithm like steepest descent, which is going to find a solution.
- In other words, to translate corpo speak, no they haven't found a solution because if they had they would have said yes.
- So, you know, I'll be stuck on a problem at work and can't seem, can't find a solution to it.
- So he he finds a solution to this question of how Ukraine can both exist and, and not exist.
- So we will have maybe a big wave of immigration in the next few years if they couldn't find a solution for Iraq.
Examples
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But with political will and a genuine commitment to find a solution, these efforts ultimately succeeded.
Academic text (1995) -
We live in difficult times, but we will find a solution.
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So as I keep going, I have to really find a solution for my own problem.
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You fix it, you fight, you have issues, you find a solution, you fix it and you move forward as a team.
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We have different people living there, and we have to find a solution to this real problem.
Academic text (2003) -
Why did I feel as though I was the only one responsible for finding a solution to this crisis?
Fiction book (1999) -
So if we want to find a solution to climate change, this should go through transforming the energy sector.
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When a challenge arises, students must find a solution that works for them and their needs.
Academic text (2008) -
To protect life here, civilization, and humanity, we must find a solution to stop global warming.
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To protect the environment, we must find a solution to reduce plastic waste.
Synonyms
∞
2.2
To think about something and find an answer or understand it
∞
1.3
To find the answer to a problem or puzzle
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3.3
To think of a plan to get past a problem
623
3.3
To find an answer to a problem and end a disagreement
165
3.2
To find an answer to a problem by thinking or talking
53
3.9
To fix a problem or bad situation
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3.0
To look for information or a solution to a problem
How Solved
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to discover or determine an answer' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'find' (to discover) with 'solution' (an answer or remedy); the determiner 'a' does not alter compositional meaning. This is a common verb + object pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase find a solution gives a clear picture: to find something you are looking for and a solution is the thing that fixes a problem. So it means 'discover an answer' to a problem.