Collocation
find an answer
to discover a solution or explanation to a question or problem
Definition
'find an answer' is a common English collocation. to discover a solution or explanation to a question or problem
find + an answer (to + something)
“We need to find an answer to this problem before the meeting.”
Examples
- I hope we can find an answer before the deadline.
- She finally found an answer to the question after rereading the notes.
- The team is trying to find an answer to why the app keeps crashing.
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- If we cannot find an answer today, we will ask for more data.
- Researchers worked for years to find an answer to how the disease spreads.
- He is determined to find an answer, even if it takes all night.
- We may never find an answer to what caused the sudden outage.
- By comparing the two reports, they found an answer that explained the discrepancy.
- The consultant helped us find an answer to a problem we had ignored for months.