solid
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The future for those products looks solid, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Manufacturing output expanded at the fastest rate in six months, underpinned by solid increases in new work inflows, according to the survey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
He averages a solid 42.69 in first-class cricket in the County Championship.
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
Escape got harder as East Germany replaced the barbed-wire fences with solid walls and tall watchtowers.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
"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
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
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
He couldn’t even remember if he was stripes or solids.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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
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
Every piece of plaster and wood is the solidest money can buy.
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
The petty wars with the inhabitants of the South consume only the soldiers, people who by their fidelity to the Spanish flag, far from being a menace, are surely one of its solidest supports.
From The Philippines A Century Hence by Jos? Rizal
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