solid
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Naver’s platform business, which includes advertising and online-shopping services, maintained solid revenue growth from a year earlier, although operating profit in the segment declined modestly amid rising AI and marketing costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
This produced solid, recyclable photocatalysts that could continuously synthesize H2O2 under natural sunlight while maintaining stable performance.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
A highlight is a circa 1874 Haine Brothers solid rosewood square grand piano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
He says: "The solid business model of SpaceX will prove itself to be worth the investment,"even as he takes some of his own winnings off the table.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
You probably think of yourself as a single, solid object.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Also I learned that no solids on a show day, no solids before singing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
A BEC is made up of matter waves and is considered a fifth state of matter in addition to solids, liquids, gases, and plasma.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 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
Ashley said biodegradable bags could also help, adding that food recycling was for solids only, not for milk or sauces.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
It is presumably for this reason that Pacioli’s first biographer, Bernardino Baldi, writing in the late sixteenth century, attributed the painting to Piero della Francesca, whose expert knowledge of the regular solids was well known.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The Mail on Sunday follows with a photo of a Spanish solider checking on two migrants collapsed on the beach in Ceuta.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
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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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Chicago fetes John Madigan, friend of pols, scourge of peers For some of the solidest citizens of Illinois, Dec. 7 was something more, much more, than Pearl Harbor Day.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee
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