solid
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Harrison Mevis replaced him and was solid the rest of the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Riccardo Calafiori: Not allowed to attack as much as usual but a solid defensive performance from the left-back.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Some have said that this is a solid indication that the stock market isn’t in a bubble, since lofty valuations are usually a signpost of a market bubble forming.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026
He had a solid night through the air, connecting on nine of his 12 passes for 188 yards, one touchdown and one interception.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Four years was a long time, but a calf or a good lump sum at the end would be a solid investment in the future.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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"You need to account for complex interactions between the electrons and surrounding atoms, and that's challenging in realistic solids represented by models with hundreds or thousands of atoms"
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
These devices work by measuring how much light has changed direction, or refracted, after passing through a liquid – indicating the volume of solids present.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Adding hydrogen turned soybean oil into solids such as shortening and margarine.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
That sensitivity has made ZrTe5 an important material for investigating topological phase transitions and relativistic quasiparticles in solids.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
The Pythagoreans were fascinated by the regular solids, symmetrical three-dimensional objects all of whose sides are the same regular polygon.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor, whose story became famous as she searched for the family of a solider who saved her, has died.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2024
It was over the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and I’d gone in disguised as a British solider.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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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
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Frail but craggy in appearance, he struck people as the solidest of citizens.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sandy has betaken himself to his great oak on the border of the policies, where with his skill in forest craft he had built himself a platform among the solidest masses of the leaves.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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