solid
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Healthcare stocks have been solid performers so far this month, as it seems investors are willing to pay up for a sector that stands to benefit from AI technology.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Germany has traditionally had solid public finances and is seen as a safer bet in terms of paying back its debts than France, hence the lower yield on German government bonds.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Traditionally, researchers have accomplished this by trapping atoms or molecules in a vacuum or embedding them inside solid materials.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Nordlaks is also testing Hydra, a giant floating tank whose solid walls extend about 65 feet below the water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
No—Jonah went over and touched it—it was still solid rock.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
"They give it to the babies, who chew on it themselves and spit out the solids".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Adding hydrogen turned soybean oil into solids such as shortening and margarine.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
They are the only naturally occurring polyhedral solids, making them unlike almost anything else in the natural landscape.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
After college, he tried going West and struck gold with mining equipment that helped separate solids from slurry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
The nested Pythagorean solids also made no allowance for the existence of the Earth’s moon, and Galileo’s discovery of the four large moons of Jupiter was also discomfiting.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The brain of a Scottish solider who died during World War Two has been buried alongside his remains in Germany.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 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
Only the day before, he confided to a friend that he “will have the fortune of receiving the greatest honor that can be given to a solider, that of dying for his country.”
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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
Stoppard's works seem solidest when built on an earlier substructure.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since devaluation, the franc has become one of Europe's solidest currencies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pompey left one of the solidest estates in this section.
From Mountain Blood A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
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