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  • Think of how different that graph would have looked if the South was a near-solid wall of unhappiness.

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

  • Following her movements, the sand spirals rotated with her, until they formed a near-solid hidden body.

    The Cat is a Metaphor 2010

  • I just cheered right along with her when the map crept towards a near-solid scarlet.

    flashback moriarty6 2006

  • Up until recently, party leaders thought of Hispanic votes in terms of the large Cuban-American population in Miami, a near-solid Republican voting bloc.

    Ron Levitt: Florida Politicos Up Rhetoric to Excite Voters, Lure Hispanics 2008

  • Ocean barges clotted the water, while fat cargo starships formed near-solid lines stretching up through the sky.

    The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

  • What's more, a tilt to Taiwan has the near-solid support of conservative think tanks, from which Bush is picking his team.

    No More U.S. 'Ambiguity' In East Asia 2007

  • Just as the Democratic Party would have been crippled in the old days without the support of the segregationist South, today's Republicans would have only a fraction of their current political power without the near-solid support of voters who are hostile to blacks.

    speaking in code 2005

  • Two hundred kph winds buffeted the hull with near-solid clumps of grey mist while lightning clawed furiously at the force field.

    The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

  • AROUND MIDDAY THE HORSES picked their way down the shallow cliffs that separated the upland plains from the near-solid farmlands—the flatter, wetter country where the lesser noble houses held land.

    Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

  • Just as the Democratic Party would have been crippled in the old days without the support of the segregationist South, today's Republicans would have only a fraction of their current political power without the near-solid support of voters who are hostile to blacks.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

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