solid
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About 5,000 patients received Rasonque in its first five weeks on the market, driven by widespread adoption by doctors and solid reimbursement from health insurers, according to the company.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Tom Brady is coming back to Foxborough to call this one, and Drake Maye put together a solid game against Miami.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
The British chip blueprint designer reported solid results but failed to ease fears about weak demand for smartphones.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
Some traders said the UK was being seen in a different light given relative political stability, solid growth and the rapprochement with the European Union.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Full figures, not the mere whisper of them, clamored about from all sides, a full, solid dark, only growing when the dead inside it began to take shape—and move in, tightening around them.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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"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
Also I learned that no solids on a show day, no solids before singing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Magnons are tiny waves of magnetization that move through magnetic solids.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
There were known to be five regular or “platonic” solids, whose sides were regular polygons, as known to the ancient Greek mathematicians after the time of Pythagoras.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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The brain of a Scottish solider who died during World War Two has been buried alongside his remains in Germany.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 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
The solidest bond between the two is the joy they share in debunking the culinary canons of their fellow Frenchmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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What gave the British their solidest satisfaction was a ruling of the Fund governors on the meaning of "fundamental disequilibrium," a gobbledygook economic cruncher imbedded deep in the Bretton Woods charter.
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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