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
And that is one solid role model to have.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Sony earnings in the April-June quarter were solid but were propped up by U.S. tariff rebates and a weak yen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He offers consistent minutes, set-piece involvement and solid all-round output which explains why nearly half of managers already own him.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The horns on the smaller unicorns looked like solid silver.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Also I learned that no solids on a show day, no solids before singing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
"In solids, molecules are packed tightly, and the π electron clouds -- regions of high electron density hovering above and below each molecular plane -- can overlap," says Sasaki.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
In solids, atoms form tightly packed lattice structures.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026
Missing the 20% minimum threshold for cocoa solids in a bar, Nestle had to change the labeling, according to a spokesperson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
But no matter how hard he tried, the solids and the planetary orbits did not agree well.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
In social media posts on 11-12 March, a fourth solider, "Dmytro" likened the retreat from the front to "a scene from a horror movie".
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
It was over the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and I’d gone in disguised as a British solider.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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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
Sacred to the goddess Fortuna, it was the Roman world's bulkiest, solidest shrine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Say, that castle was the solidest thing I ever run across.
From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson
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