pole
Example Sentences
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That means utility poles spaced around 300 feet apart, which might carry three electric wires, a neutral wire and a few communications wires, were holding nearly 5,000 pounds of ice, he said.
He shows me a long metal pole with a grabby claw-thing on the end, a strange little object that looks like a compass, and a handful of plastic bags.
From Literature
When the north and south poles of an iron atom line up, the atom becomes ferromagnetic and strongly magnetized.
From Science Daily
The airline ended up tweaking its free-for-all boarding, introducing boarding positions and poles at every gate to signify where travelers should line up to board.
After Real Madrid beat Villarreal on Saturday to take pole position overnight, the Catalans edged a point ahead again.
From Barron's
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