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pole

[pohl] / poʊl /


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Norris had started from his first pole position since the Spanish Grand Prix in September, but lost first place immediately after Antonelli, alongside him on the front row, leaped into the lead.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

It might have seemed a loss of perspective, given his five-place grid penalty meant he would not have been on pole even if he had been fastest.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

You will not even notice the pole is in your backyard,’” Hu recalled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Hamilton said his pole, on his 43rd start for Ferrari, was "one of the greatest feelings".

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Most of that day he spent in his bed of milkweed fluff, and ventured out only in the late afternoon, carrying over his shoulder a long pole, his open knife tied to the end.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

But Tuesday morning at about 4:30 a.m., the Los Angeles Fire Department said the fire had kicked up again, and was now also burning power poles nearby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

Their world-view is poles apart from that of denizens of high-tech, modern neighbourhoods of Tel Aviv.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

But it seems those tent poles are getting set up in the opposite direction these days.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

Like a Manichaean nightmare, the two sit on opposite poles of the number sphere, sucking numbers in like tiny black holes.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

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

Day 2 promised new opportunities, and just before noon, Mr. Hartman stopped poling.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2016

Charon was poling us across a dark, oily river, swirling with bones, dead fish, and other, stranger things—plastic dolls, crushed carnations, soggy diplomas with gilt edges.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan


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