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[poh-ler] / ˈpoʊ lər /




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NASA's Artemis program is aiming for crewed missions to the moon's south polar region in 2028, where permanently shadowed craters may contain valuable deposits of water ice.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

It’s about the fact that the Lotus’s polar axis runs exactly through the driver’s inboard hip, so that the machine rotates around them and not some invisible pivot point, just off-center.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

To represent the essence of a listener's own worldview, or perhaps the essence of its polar opposite.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

As a business, bowling is private equity’s polar opposite in that its values are primarily community-based.

From Salon Jul. 3, 2026

I got down on my hands and knees and crawled to the edge of the shelf and groped along to the bridge that connected the shelf to the polar ice.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell




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