solid
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Xi said Russia-Chinese ties had become "more solid" and that their "prospects will be even brighter", while Putin said cooperation was "successfully developing on all fronts".
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
“Lioness” and “MobLand” are violent fun, “Colin From Accounts” is terrific, ”Diarra From Detroit” is an underrated gem and the sports lineup is solid.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Syracuse has a solid AA-minus bond rating, but S&P Global analysts revised their outlook to negative from stable last year citing weaker demand metrics compared with similarly rated peers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
These include a fundamental question about the potential instability of the Thwaites Glacier due to the interaction of the ocean, ice and solid ground near where it meets the sea.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Raven has solid football shoulders, big-knuckled hands, perfectly straight black hair, and false eyelashes.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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Since then, scientists have tried to understand exactly how angular momentum spreads through the internal structure of solids.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 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
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
It is presumably for this reason that Pacioli’s first biographer, Bernardino Baldi, writing in the late sixteenth century, attributed the painting to Piero della Francesca, whose expert knowledge of the regular solids was well known.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
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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 sol is one of the solidest currencies in Latin America.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Stoppard's works seem solidest when built on an earlier substructure.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Time was when hunger for it haunted me like a passion, and such sights would have then been the solidest of mental food.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
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