solo
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Up next, Franco will roll solo as an actor and producer of the dark action comedy “Idiots,” out in theaters on Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Parton’s solo career spanned equally divisive times, launching at the height of the Vietnam War and carrying on for everything that came afterwards.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Kusama studied Japanese painting in Kyoto, against her parents' wishes, and held her first solo exhibition in 1952 in her hometown of Matsumoto in central Japan.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Eventually, she realised she needed to strike out as a solo artist – writing I Will Always Love You as a letter of apology to her former mentor.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
They made over nine thousand solo flights in their fast and dangerous Yak fighters—about half of those were combat missions, and 125 were air battles.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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While the United States is among a smaller group of countries that recognize jus soli, it is not alone in doing so.
From Salon ● May 24, 2026
John Skrentny, a sociology professor at the University of California, San Diego, believes that, though birthright citizenship or jus soli is common throughout the Americas, "each nation-state had its own unique road to it".
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025
The aforementioned Republic Act observes a couple of legal principles that many countries around the world have incorporated into their legislation: jus soli and jus sanguinis.
From Encyclopedia.com ● Dec. 3, 2018
In truth, more than 30 other countries in the Western Hemisphere alone have some form of jus soli, where birth automatically confers citizenship.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2018
He held the most beautiful soli in his hand and forgot to declare them.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
The poignant “Time Waits for No One” features one of Taylor’s most beautiful solos, a fitting coda to the end of his five-year career with the Stones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
In a Thursday night marathon, he paid tribute to the orchestra members, giving 17 players solos in various concerto movements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
He has edited his solos a little; they seem more concise, but they still achieve the same goal: liftoff.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
Known for long solos, Rollins was considered among the best improvisers and told PBS he would go on stage with his mind blank and no plan beyond an awareness of the structure of the piece.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
We’d both vowed to remain solos for life.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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He could have free soloed it, he says, but he would have been arrested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
But the two-time champion soloed to victory on stage 14 and followed that up by dismissing his competition on a gruelling climb to the stage 15 finish in Plateau de Beille.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2024
Vingegaard kept intact his 10-second overall lead over the two-time champion on Sunday as Dutch veteran Wout Poels soloed to victory after a tough trek in the Alps with a mountaintop finish.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 16, 2023
As he soloed, the names of more departed appeared on the screen: singers Mary Wilson, Bonnie Pointer, Mac Davis and Helen Reddy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2021
Pianist Benito Gonzalez, who can be as devout a follower of McCoy Tyner as Lawrence is of Tyner’s most famous employer, soloed instead like himself, deploying a bevy of cascading phrases, licks and off-kilter rhythms.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2017
There was also vindication for some of Lifeson’s more adventurous guitar work of the early ’80s, when he all but invented a new chime-laden language of soloing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Honnold, 40, is known for free soloing, or climbing without ropes, harnesses and other equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
A special element of this particular track that proves his superior sense of melodic playing is the fact that Barry sings as he’s soloing, which can be heard if you listen closely.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Somewhat like her husband, Ms. Mingus could be testy toward the group’s musicians, teasing them at times for playing too loudly or soloing too long.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
His first introduction to rock climbing was seeing Alex Honnold on the big screen soloing El Capitan.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
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