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solitaire

[sol-i-tair] / ˈsɒl ɪˌtɛər /






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The team also identified a new solitaire coral, that are described in another study.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026

She tends to her garden, plays solitaire on her computer, follows the Dodgers and has a favorite player — Shohei Ohtani.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2025

According to People Magazine at the time, Affleck proposed with a custom-made Harry Winston pink-diamond solitaire ring.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2024

At another, Monet challenged an orc to solitaire instead of fighting it.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

Mendeleyev was said to have been inspired by the card game known as solitaire in North America and patience elsewhere, wherein cards are arranged by suit horizontally and by number vertically.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The piece eventually spawned a bridal and commitment jewelry line, introduced in September, that is at once charming and impertinent: black diamonds, solitaires with inverted settings, and outré inscriptions.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2011

Sometimes at night, she could hear the cries of the quail doves and solitaires interspersed with the songs from the aviary.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

In the pine belt below the timber-line a pair of solitaires were observed flitting about on the ground and the lower branches of the trees, but vouchsafing no song.

From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

The instalment jeweler has gone out of business, and half a dozen servant-girls have refused to make further payments on their solitaires and returned them.

From 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry by Irving Bacheller

Edmond Russell severely criticises diamond solitaires for earrings and esteems the stone a difficult one to wear except when small and used in quantities as settings for other jewels.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke


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