solid
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The real tests for this fresh new roster — down an all-time talent but so much more solid in the center — come when the season begins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The Kobe kittens weighed around 150 grams when they were born but now weigh more than one kilo and are starting to eat solid food like chicken and horse meat, the zoo said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Given that you have no debt and have stable retirement income and savings, another CD is a perfectly solid choice.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Lost valuable practice time following a suspension failure and started near the back, so recovering to 13th was more than a solid result.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 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
It’s just like clockwork, if I have any solids during the day of the show, around song seven, I start burping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
They are the only naturally occurring polyhedral solids, making them unlike almost anything else in the natural landscape.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
After college, he tried going West and struck gold with mining equipment that helped separate solids from slurry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Magnons are tiny waves of magnetization that move through magnetic solids.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
The Pythagoreans were fascinated by the regular solids, symmetrical three-dimensional objects all of whose sides are the same regular polygon.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor, whose story became famous as she searched for the family of a solider who saved her, has died.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2024
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
What gave the British their solidest satisfaction was a ruling of the Fund governors on the meaning of "fundamental disequilibrium," a gobbledygook economic cruncher imbedded deep in the Bretton Woods charter.
From Time Magazine Archive
The solidest single fact is that the CBS system, developed to high perfection by Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, turns out pictures which are bright, crisp, and at least as faithful as most colored movies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gee," said he, "the cops are the solidest chunks of ivory I ever seen.
From Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist by McIntyre, John T.
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