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solid

[sol-id] / ˈsɒl ɪd /


ADJECTIVE
having three dimensions
Synonyms




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Here, she talks about her time as a cover singer in bars, her connection with Styles and the importance of avoiding solid food on show days.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Jesse Minter did such a solid job as defensive coordinator of the Chargers that he was hired as head coach of the Baltimore Ravens.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Horan thinks AT&T has a “few solid quarters” before pressure from Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite-internet division, becomes a major concern.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Overall, demand for electricity "forecast to stay on a solid upward trajectory," driven in particular by industry, electric vehicles and data centres, the IEA said.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Ripples spread in silent, ever-increasing circles across the smooth surface of what they all had mistaken for solid ground.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

It’s just like clockwork, if I have any solids during the day of the show, around song seven, I start burping.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

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

From Science Daily Apr. 21, 2026

In solids, atoms form tightly packed lattice structures.

From Science Daily Apr. 19, 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

Aristotelians also held that solids are denser and heavier than liquids.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Itay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel.

From BBC Dec. 8, 2023

It was over the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and I’d gone in disguised as a British solider.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

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

One of the solidest and best of the year's firsts was The Encounter, Crawford Power's portrayal of a parish priest's struggle with pride.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now Pierre began to see mysteries interpierced with mysteries, and mysteries eluding mysteries; and began to seem to see the mere imaginariness of the so supposed solidest principle of human association.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman




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