solid
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto gives up just four hits over six solid innings as the Dodgers overcome another shaky Edwin Díaz performance to beat Milwaukee 3-1.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
As reintroductions go, it was solid, not spectacular.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Mr. Pierre is solid, stolid superhero material; Mr. Chandler is pure mischief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Now those players are back, and it’s all about making smaller tweaks along a solid line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
He was more solid than any ghost Boaz had seen, more solid even than the shul’s dead board.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Also I learned that no solids on a show day, no solids before singing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
In solids, atoms form tightly packed lattice structures.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026
Nestle reformulated products, no longer meeting the 20% cocoa solids threshold, and created cocoa-free items from sunflower seeds and oats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Ashley said biodegradable bags could also help, adding that food recycling was for solids only, not for milk or sauces.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
She came out from behind the register and led me to the fabric bolts, stacks of solids mixed with prints, cottons with satins, and linen with corduroys.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
I've come to an industrial space in a tech-heavy area of San Francisco expecting to see a menacing humanoid robot solider doing something combat-like: the future of land-based warfare, perhaps.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
There’s a scene in the 1981 Bill Murray film Stripes where a solider introduces himself to his colleagues as “Psycho,” though his real name is Francis.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026
It was not clear whether the solider who died was among that toll.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
Packaged in cosplay costumes — cowgirl, solider, even firefighter and pilot — we were supposed to see her as strong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
Only the day before, he confided to a friend that he “will have the fortune of receiving the greatest honor that can be given to a solider, that of dying for his country.”
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
John Martin, in The New York Times, hailed it as an unlikely success, “the solidest foundation that has yet been laid for the development of the art of ballet in America.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
They persisted in seeing it as the solidest, most plausible candidate.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 2011
The solidest bond between the two is the joy they share in debunking the culinary canons of their fellow Frenchmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sol is one of the solidest currencies in Latin America.
From Time Magazine Archive
However, as she leaves my solidest authors also on their heads, men beyond the peradventure of such antics, I must consider it but a part of her carelessness, for which I have warned her twice.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
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