solid
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At this point in the game, with your solid financial position, you are buying yourself options.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The same substance can appear as both liquid water and solid ice.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Fabrinet stock declines after the company posts solid earnings on robust data-center demand.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Alongside Tielemans and Santos, the midfield trio struggled to build up and create a solid platform upon which United could dominate the ball.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
It’s a beautiful blue Mergomobile that’s made out of wood, with solid rubber tires.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Also I learned that no solids on a show day, no solids before singing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
According to the researchers, the result acts as a direct quantum mechanical signature of angular momentum conservation inside solids.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
Nestle reformulated products, no longer meeting the 20% cocoa solids threshold, and created cocoa-free items from sunflower seeds and oats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
When stretched, solids elongate until they reach a critical stress point, then break suddenly in a process known as brittle fracture.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 30, 2026
But no matter how hard he tried, the solids and the planetary orbits did not agree well.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
It was over the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and I’d gone in disguised as a British solider.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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 in Addison Road, a quiet corner of London's fashionable Kensington district where many members of the Russian Embassy staff live in cozy proximity to some of Britain's solidest citizens, the atmosphere was less honeyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frail but craggy in appearance, he struck people as the solidest of citizens.
From Time Magazine Archive
Around and around the planet, in brief bursts of completely incomprehensible speed, the huge ship darted; the biggest, solidest, yet most elusive and fantastic "flying saucer" ever to visit that world.
From The Galaxy Primes by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
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