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solid

[sol-id] / ˈsɒl ɪd /


ADJECTIVE
having three dimensions
Synonyms




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Challenges to returning to full-scale missile manufacturing include damage to chemical facilities needed to make liquid propellants and industrial mixers for producing solid fuel, Arab officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

"He's a solid player and consistent and I've learned a lot from him playing in the league," he said.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Assuming you have no debts, you are in solid shape with your monthly income.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

Scholarship Prep officials say they’re not only addressing that problem, but also their students are on a solid academic path.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

The ones holding our items throw them to the side to try to get a better grip on solid ground—to no avail.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Also I learned that no solids on a show day, no solids before singing.

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

Superionic materials are unusual because they behave partly like solids and partly like liquids.

From Science Daily Apr. 21, 2026

Urine is stored in a tank and is vented out each day; solids are stored in canisters designed to control odor and gas buildup.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 2, 2026

"She won’t eat anything else. She stopped eating solids after she turned one hundred. That was, let’s see, three years ago."

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

In a tribute on Monday, her commanding officer described her as "a bright light in any room she entered" and "an immensely professional solider and an exceptional jockey".

From BBC May 18, 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

The solidest bond between the two is the joy they share in debunking the culinary canons of their fellow Frenchmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sacred to the goddess Fortuna, it was the Roman world's bulkiest, solidest shrine.

From Time Magazine Archive

The finest and solidest bacon in the world is produced in this way.

From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett




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