solid
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One of the biggest challenges in treating solid tumors is their diversity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Kia is maintaining solid sales momentum, driven by hybrid vehicles in the U.S. and battery-electric vehicles in Europe, despite challenges from higher tariffs and the war in Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Oracle shares were climbing on Friday after the cloud and software group delivered a solid quarter and lifted earnings and revenue forecasts, but to somewhat mixed reviews on Wall Street.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Its strength model allows simulated planetary material to resist deformation in ways more consistent with real geologic substances, including the rock and metals that likely made up Theia and the proto-Earth, or solid ice.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Secondary waves move through the solid rock of the mantle, but cannot penetrate the molten iron outer core.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Also I learned that no solids on a show day, no solids before singing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
It’s just like clockwork, if I have any solids during the day of the show, around song seven, I start burping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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
"In solids, molecules are packed tightly, and the π electron clouds -- regions of high electron density hovering above and below each molecular plane -- can overlap," says Sasaki.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
She came out from behind the register and led me to the fabric bolts, stacks of solids mixed with prints, cottons with satins, and linen with corduroys.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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
I've come to an industrial space in a tech-heavy area of San Francisco expecting to see a menacing humanoid robot solider doing something combat-like: the future of land-based warfare, perhaps.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 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
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
One of the solidest and best of the year's firsts was The Encounter, Crawford Power's portrayal of a parish priest's struggle with pride.
From Time Magazine Archive
The second and solidest act of the play is commandeered by Walter Matthau in a brilliant portrayal of a patrician whose blood has been blue for so long that it has curdled.
From Time Magazine Archive
His perception of reality was of the solidest.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
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