solo
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“For Geely, globalization is not a solo sprint,” Alex Nan, vice president of Geely Auto, told the audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
In 2023, you said you didn’t want any electric guitar on your solo album.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
In the year since, Lisa has already wrapped up her Blackpink duties and started phase two of her solo career with the single Sawadika.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
But on his new solo album, “Thrasher,” he trades the Killers’ gleaming, synth-laced rock for the crackling sound of hand-played country music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
What should he play, solo, with an acoustic guitar?
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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The idea that nearly everyone born on the land became a citizen was so pervasive as to have a name: jus soli, or “the right of the soil.”
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
While the United States is among a smaller group of countries that recognize jus soli, it is not alone in doing so.
From Salon ● May 24, 2026
Many African nations, which historically followed jus soli under colonial-era legal systems, later abandoned it after gaining independence.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025
The aforementioned Republic Act observes a couple of legal principles that many countries around the world have incorporated into their legislation: jus soli and jus sanguinis.
From Encyclopedia.com ● Dec. 3, 2018
Not that I am at all affected by the nescio qua dulcedine natalis soli of Horace.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
The poignant “Time Waits for No One” features one of Taylor’s most beautiful solos, a fitting coda to the end of his five-year career with the Stones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Something of a lull arrived in the middle of the three-hour set, with newer, less familiar numbers, covers, and extended versions of songs with multiple solos in them.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
He has edited his solos a little; they seem more concise, but they still achieve the same goal: liftoff.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
Coltrane’s status had grown rapidly in the late 1950s with awestruck solos featuring what critic Ira Gitler called “sheets of sound.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Soon she was singing well enough to be entrusted with solos when the junior choir performed at the church’s main Sunday service.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
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He could have free soloed it, he says, but he would have been arrested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
But the two-time champion soloed to victory on stage 14 and followed that up by dismissing his competition on a gruelling climb to the stage 15 finish in Plateau de Beille.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2024
Former world champion Michal Kwiatkowski soloed to the top of the Grand Colombier mountain to claim a second career Tour stage win.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
MENDE, France — Michael Matthews soloed to victory on the 14th stage of the Tour de France on Saturday when defending champion Tadej Pogacar tried in vain to regain time on leader Jonas Vingegaard.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2022
Leclerc had just soloed two major routes on Cerro Torre and Torre Egger in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
Honnold, 40, is known for free soloing, or climbing without ropes, harnesses and other equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Bluesy licks, long a central part of her sound, lead fluidly into bebop lines and more modern language; her soloing seems to encapsulate the history of jazz piano while looking ahead into its future.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
Moving freely across an expressive horizon reaching from bebop to free improvisation, he enhanced his imaginative soloing with a rich palette of saxophone sounds and textures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Somewhat like her husband, Ms. Mingus could be testy toward the group’s musicians, teasing them at times for playing too loudly or soloing too long.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
If you went to Joshua Tree or Yosemite, you’d see several people free soloing as you did a route.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
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