In a sense that 'find' means 'a person whose ability proves to be unexpectedly good' extracted from Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, is it possible to write the following? : Nobody had seemed to solve the problem, but the girl in a blue skirt was a find. [=the girl alone solved the problem]
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Your sentence is correct, but it just means she was unexpectedly exceptional in some way. It doesn't mean she solved the problem.
— Clive
Your sentence is correct, but it just means she was unexpectedly exceptional in some way.
It doesn't mean she solved the problem.
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