Keep
Solidify
Solidify verb - To become physically firm or solid.
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Both words in one sentence
- In close games, this can often be a significant factor in victory as each team tries to keep just enough time available to gain/retain/solidify the lead without also giving the other team a chance to retaliate.
- The best way to fight them is to keep your back turned until they solidify, wait for them to move (which prevents them disappearing), and then turn around and gun them to pieces.
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Hundreds of millions of years later, lavas would emerge from the lunar interior and solidify forming the lunar seas giving the Moon the aspect it has from Earth, that unless we, or someone else, mess with it will very likely keep as long as it exists.
Source: Deface of the Moon
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