Break and Resolve

Break

Break verb - To find an answer for through reasoning.

Usage example: Professor Bates broke the problem when she realized that it was possible to synthesize the necessary compounds

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Resolve and break are semantically related In some cases you can use "Resolve" instead the word "Break" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: breach, breakdown, breaking, breakup, breakable

Resolve verb - To find an answer for through reasoning.

Usage example: resolve the apparent contradictions in the collected data

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Break and resolve are semantically related in find solution topic. Sometimes you can use "Break" instead the word "Resolve" as a verb or a noun.

emotional	emotional break	emotional resolve
good	good break	good resolve
high	high break	high resolve
notable	notable break	notable resolve
Other adjectives: complete, true, massive, little, quiet, needed, new, mental, several, sudden.

Instead Sellars picks up a pistol and brags about how Murphy is just a machine and how he could kill his family, which gives Murphy the resolve he needs to break programming and shoot him.

Source: Villain Ball
Instead Sellars picks up a pistol and brags about how Murphy is just a machine and how he could kill his family, which gives Murphy the resolve he needs to break programming and shoot Sellars.

Source: Film / RoboCop (2014)
Gríma Wormtongue is a student of Saruman's, and uses similar non-magical techniques on Théoden to render him helpless and hopeless against Saruman, and on Éowyn in order to break her resolve and drive her to desperation.

Source: Break Them by Talking

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