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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are less solid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is not as firm, stable, or reliable as something else.
Example: "The foundations of the old building are less solid than those of the new construction."
Alternatives: "are not as firm" or "are more unstable".
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There are less solid bases on which to build a national team.
Granting that the distinctions between fiction and nonfiction are less solid than we sometimes think, what inspired your turn back to fiction?
Even the characters we think of as "solidly realised" in the conventional realist sense are less solid the longer we look at them.
I know now that comets are subject to lots of little forces, as opposed to the great big yank of gravity, so they are less "solid" than Earth; more bumpy, but less dense.
Rather the greater cost of the holding company's debt reflects higher risk the assets securing its debt (dividend payments from the bank, for example, which might be stopped by a regulator) are less solid than those underpinning debt directly raised by a bank.In fact, no corporate structure can prevent the benefits of government insurance leaking to other businesses.
He's also worried by the fact that Bonanos's team used a bright, hot eclipsing binary, for which theoretical models are less solid.
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This was less solid than "social Darwinism".
But support for United Russia is less solid.
The newly thickened firewall is less solid than it appears.
Yet even the cuts plan may be less solid than it appears.
It is less solid than some but that means it packs down well when empty.
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