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Recent Examples of semisolidCouncil members were fed up with being a regional processing point for sludge, the semisolid mixture of human waste, other organic material and chemicals that gets filtered out of wastewater.—
Alex Kuffner,
The Providence Journal,
3 Mar. 2026 While the spoon is designed for solid and semisolid foods that act as a bridge between the spoon and the tongue, the cup works with liquids such as soups and beverages.—IEEE Spectrum,
16 Dec. 2025 Underneath the crust is the mantle, an 1,800-mile-thick layer of semisolid silicate materials ranging in temperature from 1,800 degrees to 6,700 degrees Fahrenheit.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
8 Jan. 2025 The resulting semisolid curds and clear whey are further manipulated for different kinds of tofu.—
Andrea Nguyen,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2023 Thick semisolid formulas, gel deodorants go on wet and dry quickly for complete and lasting protection.—
Grooming Playbook,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
12 June 2022 Roughly 90 percent of quakes on Earth are produced by the movement of tectonic plates, massive slabs of the planet’s lithosphere that slide around atop the semisolid asthenosphere layer and occasionally bump into one another.—
Joanna Thompson,
Scientific American,
24 May 2022 Bologna is a semisolid meat product made from one or more livestock sources, most commonly beef or pork, and may contain poultry meat.—
Elsbeth Sites,
Discover Magazine,
27 Oct. 2015
Traditional Neapolitan pizzas are made with a semiliquid passata of San Marzano tomatoes and fresh buffalo mozzarella with a very high moisture content.
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New York Times,
New York Times,
17 Aug. 2021
Preliminary results indicate that space travelers will drink from plastic squeeze bottles and that space cooks will specialize in semiliquid preparations resembling baby food.
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Scientific American,
Scientific American,
1 July 2020
When new, concrete possesses a thin, temporarily protective layer that, if not maintained, will wear away, exposing the interior, which gradually crumbles.
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Jeffrey Weiss,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2026
Officials issued the alert Monday after a man shared with police an image appearing to show the dangerous reptile slithering from the thin branch of a tree onto the roof of a backyard shed.
This has also been seen from orbit many times in photos from the International Space Station and, in fact, was seen by the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn when sunlight reflected off lakes of liquid methane on its huge moon Titan.
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Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
2 Oct. 2026
New futures contracts often struggle to generate meaningful trading activity, and those that do succeed can take years to build a liquid market with abundant buyers and sellers.
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Bruce Blythe,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Oct. 2026