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Recent Examples of solidify The mixture behaves like a liquid until pressure is applied, then solidifies before returning to a liquid state. Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025 For better or worse, the richest have long been able to wrest stars from the less well-off; there is, though, a welcome debate to be had about how much PSR solidifies the status quo. Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025 Advertisement The capture in Goa is considered by many to be the most strategic operation of Zende’s career, solidifying his reputation as one of India’s most skilled police officers. Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 5 Sep. 2025 The Eagles, though, continued to use Hurts and star running back Saquon Barkley to solidify the run game, and Hurts ran one in the end zone from eight yards out for the score. Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for solidify
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Verb
  • Prosecutors accused Read of backing up into O’Keefe, her boyfriend of two years, with her SUV, leaving him to freeze and die on the front yard of a Canton home where the pair was supposed to continue a night out after the bars closed that cold, snowy early January morning.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Using an ice chamber, the team froze mixtures of water, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia to a bone-chilling –420 degrees Fahrenheit (-253 degrees Celsius), mimicking frigid conditions near the moon's surface.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Only one storm has formed into a major hurricane.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Mistral, one of Europe’s most competitive tech startups and widely seen as a regional rival of Sam Altman’s OpenAI, has been building large language models that form the foundation of AI applications, such as chatbots.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The seafloor within the rings around the barrels had hardened like concrete, preventing them from collecting samples with a coring device that would be inserted into the seafloor.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In analysis sent to Newsweek, global risk firm RANE said the incident could accelerate NATO's air defense integration and harden its posture toward Russia.
    Brendan Cole John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That vulnerability crystallizes in her scenes opposite French screen legend Daniel Auteuil, who plays her ex-husband, Gabriel.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • With only a handful of the local elections yet to be decided, the will of the members is beginning to crystallize, though there is still more to unfold.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Yet that comes as experts say competition among convenience stores is stiffening.
    Natalie Rice, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Despite herself, Cali stiffened.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Solidify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solidify. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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