pole
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These records stood in stark contrast to conditions at the opposite pole, where Arctic sea ice was undergoing a steep decline.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
The satellite maps also contain a white circular region at the North Pole known as the "pole hole."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Watson said he had been left with "no negotiation" about how much rent was paid to him for his land, and warned landowners tempted to host masts not to "touch it with a barge pole".
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Leclerc was 0.243secs off pole, and ruing what he said was Ferrari "losing a little bit of our raw performance" in the past three or four races.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
In place of roses it was full of thick pole beans and hard green cabbages and strong carrots.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
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The observations provide valuable information about WASP-17b's atmospheric chemistry and temperature variations, including differences between its equator and poles and between its permanently illuminated and dark hemispheres.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
We see this happen on Venus -- there's almost no difference in surface temperature between the day and night sides, or between the poles and the equator.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Some of the more dramatic effects from global warming are taking place in the poles, which occupy around 20 percent of the global ocean surface.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
He was the first person to visit both north and south poles by surface means in the early 1980s and has been described by The Guinness Book of Records as "the world's greatest living explorer".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Women walking along rice paddies, carrying baskets on long poles balanced on their shoulders.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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The crystals used in the experiments were carefully grown and then exposed to the electric field, or "poled," by Raffi Sahul at Amphenol Corporation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Doing the heavy lifting, however, were crew members — usually enslaved people, freedmen or poor White people — extraordinary watermen who poled their flotillas to market in Richmond.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2022
“We always had a southern swamp opening, lots of hanging Spanish moss ... one number, she entered on a raft poled by one of the dancers across a dry ice stage.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2018
Steamboats could travel faster and more cheaply than sailing vessels or keelboats, which floated downriver and had to be poled or towed upriver on the return voyage.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
Deepwater fishing boats and river runners came and went, ferrymen poled back and forth across the Blackwater Rush, trading galleys unloaded goods from Braavos and Pentos and Lys.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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The spokesperson said they were working "to overcome additional challenges such as secondary damages and additional poling and cabling work in some areas".
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2025
These shorter wavelengths are achieved when the trapped light in the cavity undergoes a process called all-optical poling, which induces what is known as second-order nonlinearity in the silicon nitride.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2023
Behind me he stands atop a short platform, gently poling the skiff over improbably clear water.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2017
Mr. Hartman led us to one of his favorite spots, cut the motor and began poling us across the flat.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2016
Most of the men who lived here were out fishing, some not far from the shore, poling their sampans through the shallow water.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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