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solid

[sol-id] / ˈsɒl ɪd /


ADJECTIVE
having three dimensions
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The Company Purpose sounds solid, but is it?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Hinson, who wasn’t made available to Slate, is running a solid, safe campaign.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

And it’s a solid example of Mr. Webb’s gift for being utterly unorthodox while wrangling the ears of a mainstream audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

And add in the fact they already had one of the most solid partnerships in world football too, it can be understood why there was confusion about such a big outlay.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

It could slowly slide along, because instead of being solid, the rock of a harmonic tremor was fluid.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

"You need to account for complex interactions between the electrons and surrounding atoms, and that's challenging in realistic solids represented by models with hundreds or thousands of atoms"

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

"They give it to the babies, who chew on it themselves and spit out the solids".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Adding hydrogen turned soybean oil into solids such as shortening and margarine.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

It is presumably for this reason that Pacioli’s first biographer, Bernardino Baldi, writing in the late sixteenth century, attributed the painting to Piero della Francesca, whose expert knowledge of the regular solids was well known.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Would you fancy the chances of the new defence secretary, former solider Dan Jarvis, being able to square that circle any time soon?

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 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

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

But only about 5% are as potent as the tunes here--whoever inspired it, this is Lovett's solidest package in a long, ornery career.

From Time Magazine Archive

The solidest comfort he got in these days came from Sharlee Weyland, who did not read the Chronicle, and was most beautifully confident that whatever he had done was right.

From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby


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