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Recent Examples of solid That's a solid seven-game sample size, though that didn't do much to change the narrative about Judge in October. Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025 The solid memory foam pillow is what senior commerce editor Nashia Baker considers the ultimate supportive pillow. Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 17 Oct. 2025 While spreads are tight, Melson still sees strong fundamentals and solid carry in credit. Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025 If the wrapping paper has a design, the bow is solid. Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for solid
Recent Examples of Synonyms for solid
Adjective
  • On one hand, winning another chip will be at the forefront, so managing players toward the end of the regular season would be logical.
    Stan Son, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • So adding a unit in Nashville was the next logical move.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Peyton Manning had a night in San Diego that remains hard to wrap one’s head around.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But while prosecutors and law enforcement continue doing the hard work of keeping Orange County safe, the County CEO appears intent on undermining that success.
    Todd Spitzer, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • An inspector’s notes also stated there were cardboard containers on the floor, a non-self closing restroom door, no training documentation for the staff.
    Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The women's brains showed a clear divide between the areas of the brain activated by self and non-self MHCs.
    Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2013
Adjective
  • Politically, the affluence manifested in Long Island establishing itself as a bastion of the Republican Party, showing strong support for Hoover in his doomed Presidential campaign against Roosevelt.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Since Xi Jinping assumed power in 2012, Chinese stories have increasingly included nods to Chinese nationalist (not just communist) soldiers fighting bravely, thus placing a strong, victorious, and morally righteous China at the forefront of the postwar global order.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Shoppers also find cotton jeans to be the most sustainable or environmentally friendly (67 percent), the most authentic (64 percent), the highest quality (58 percent), the longest lasting (51 percent) and the most reliable (50 percent).
    Footwear News, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Stephanie Smith, a spokesperson from I&M, stressed that the utility’s energy mix is designed to provide safe, reliable and clean power customers can count on around the clock in a statement.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • There's no-contact check-in and the rooms are reasonable.
    Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Injecting an element of randomness and uncertainty into the process is reasonable, given that in the real world, measurements are never exact.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Increase mixer speed to high, and beat until stiff peaks form, 3 to 4 minutes.
    Ivy Odom, Southern Living, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Symptoms of listeria infections depend on the person, but can include fever, flu-like symptoms, headache and stiff neck.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The clash of views and the depth of the politics involved was further underlined by Ayoub Khan, a member of parliament for the Birmingham Perry Barr constituency, signing a petition calling for the game to be called off, staged in a neutral country or held without an away crowd.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Successful sea trial Nearly massless and electrically neutral, neutrinos are born in violent events like nuclear reactions inside stars.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Solid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solid. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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