solid
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Citi strategists say markets can keep rallying on limited Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes — two or three — owing to strong earnings growth, solid labor markets and largely stable, even if above-target, inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Clear Spring, the insurer that issued Phillips’s annuity, had solid investment-grade ratings and quarterly financial disclosures that looked healthy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Nelson, who is also a nurse administrator in Washington state, said most parents vaccinate their children in the end, once they get solid information from their healthcare provider or school nurse.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Jefferson had a solid game, going 14 for 23 through the air with 205 yards and tacked on 65 on the ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
It’s like the Ranch is the only thing that makes me solid.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Adding hydrogen turned soybean oil into solids such as shortening and margarine.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 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
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
Magnons are tiny waves of magnetization that move through magnetic solids.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 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
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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
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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
Since devaluation, the franc has become one of Europe's solidest currencies.
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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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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