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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

It was hoped that her solitaire diamond ring, which was listed for sale between £70,000 to £100,000, would boost the amount for charity, but it did not meet its reserve price.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2024

Hale’s attorney Sargent Prentiss Freeling died—apparently of a cerebral hemorrhage—in one of the hotel rooms while playing solitaire.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

Hermits and solitaires are always egotists, I believe.

From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Frances Fuller Victor

That's taking the high dive, all right," says I. "Lets you in deep, you know, when you go shovin' solitaires at 'em.

From Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford

For the noise of the golden-breasted bird Sligo Moultrie can not hear something that is said to him by the ripe mouth between the solitaires.

From Trumps by George William Curtis


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