How to Use solid-state in a Sentence

solid-state

adjective
  • Race is real but not the point and not even solid-state.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Arnold notes the method is not suitable for solid-state drives (SSDs).
    — Gene Marks, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Soon, that might include a solid-state battery that gives the car a whopping 621 miles of range.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The idea of a solid-state transformer has been kicking around in academia and industry for years.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Plus, with 1TB of solid-state storage, there’s plenty of room for big files and quick access to all your apps.
    — Stackcommerce Team (sponsored), PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The introduction of the solid-state drive (SSD) brought greater speeds with no moving parts to the computer world.
    — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2024
  • In fact, Toyota plans to introduce a vehicle with a solid-state battery by the middle of the decade.
    — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The future of clean energy is an all solid-state battery.
    — Stephen Key, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The solid-state drive has a much shorter history, though its roots do reach several decades into the past.
    — PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Her solid-state stare can easily morph into a don’t-mess-with-me glower.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Lightning fast and reliable, solid-state drives take less babying than hard drives.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Likewise, the standard solid-state storage capacity on the laptop is 512GB with room for up to 2TB.
    — Joe Osborne, PCMAG, 20 May 2024
  • On the one hand, solid-state volume buttons would have likely been more durable and water resistant.
    — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • The discipline was a touch random, perhaps, coming from solid-state physics.
    — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024
  • This rugged solid-state drive can survive being tossed around and can connect to a PC or smartphone for easy access to your important files.
    — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Fusion Drives combine a small solid-state drive and a larger spinning hard drive that combine to appear as one volume.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 30 July 2023
  • The other type of storage — called solid-state drives (SSDs) — is made up of memory chips instead of platters and has no moving parts.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • My favorites are small, portable drives with no moving parts called SSDs, or solid-state drives.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • What is missing from the leaker’s information are details about the new solid-state mute button.
    — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Yoshino has found a way to scale solid-state cells into portable power stations that weigh anywhere from 10 to 54 pounds.
    — Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The interesting variation in this case is the solid-state light source, Xgimi's Dual Light 2.0.
    — PCMAG, 18 Jan. 2025
  • If our explorations of the strange frontiers of solid-state physics are successful, there is always a chance that the next epoch of technology will come to be known as the Strange Metal Age.
    — Douglas Natelson, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Like many hopeful startups, Toyota continues to tease the next big leap: The arrival of solid-state batteries in showrooms.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Nissan didn’t say too much about the powertrain, but the Hyper Force will supposedly pump out 1,341 horses and get its juice from a solid-state battery that helps keep weight down.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Take, for example, content creators moving large video files to and from banks of solid-state storage in a production workflow.
    — PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Apple could also be raising the price of its flagship Pro models, while rumors of solid-state volume buttons seem to have fallen apart lately.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Still a concept at the moment, the all-new SKL is a highly impressive rooftop shelter that brings along its own solid-state battery bank and insulated aluminum walls.
    — New Atlas, 19 May 2025
  • This blog focuses on various types of solid-state non-volatile memory and storage.
    — Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • It’s also recommended to go with one that has solid-state storage instead of a hard drive, as a traditional hard drive will greatly bottleneck the performance of the rest of the components.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 9 July 2025
  • That said, the use of a solid-state battery also depends on how the electric motorcycle market evolves.
    — New Atlas, 24 Apr. 2026

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