solid
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Many solid tumors lack suitable proteins on their outer surface for conventional immune therapies to recognize.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Oracle shares were climbing on Friday after the cloud and software group delivered a solid quarter and lifted earnings and revenue forecasts, but to somewhat mixed reviews on Wall Street.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Its strength model allows simulated planetary material to resist deformation in ways more consistent with real geologic substances, including the rock and metals that likely made up Theia and the proto-Earth, or solid ice.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
As team captain during my senior year, I felt an additional responsibility to make sure we maintained positive attitudes and went into each game with a solid plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
To brighten up the space, workers attached window frames to the solid concrete walls and painted pleasant nature scenes inside the frames.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
A BEC is made up of matter waves and is considered a fifth state of matter in addition to solids, liquids, gases, and plasma.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
Since then, scientists have tried to understand exactly how angular momentum spreads through the internal structure of solids.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
Urine is stored in a tank and is vented out each day; solids are stored in canisters designed to control odor and gas buildup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
"She won’t eat anything else. She stopped eating solids after she turned one hundred. That was, let’s see, three years ago."
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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
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
Stoppard's works seem solidest when built on an earlier substructure.
From Time Magazine Archive
Send out the call to about three hundred of your solidest men.
From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens
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