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pole

[pohl] / poʊl /


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The small group of entrepreneurs in pole position to bring sodium-ion batteries to the U.S. at scale includes a pair of former Tesla engineers teaming up to compete with their old boss.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Minutes later, Lobga was in flames outside the U.N., near a Tibetan flag attached to a green pole.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Owen Heard jumped just one centimetre short of his personal best to secure a bronze medal for England in the men's pole vault.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

For two, whatever $2 tickets you might find in Anaheim put you in the vicinity of the top of a foul pole.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 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

Near a planet's poles, however, there are funnel-shaped openings known as "magnetospheric cusps."

From Science Daily Aug. 10, 2026

The tropics receive far more energy from the sun than the poles.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

A portion of those particles are channeled to Earth’s magnetic poles, and when the solar wind is particularly active, they become visible as the aurora borealis and aurora australis.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

"Nearly all trees will be snapped or uprooted and power poles downed. Fallen trees and power poles will isolate residential areas. Power outages will last for weeks to possibly months," it said.

From Barron's Jul. 5, 2026

She tells us they are made from thick pieces of canvas tied onto poles, and they are large and airy inside.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

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

As we poled over to retrieve it, Pastrana pointed out a good-size fish by the mangroves to the left.

From Washington Post Apr. 1, 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

Under the tent of blanket, which was poled by my elbow and forearm, the baby slept touching my side.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

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

In the famous painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” by Emanuel Leutze, there, at George Washington’s right knee, is a Marblehead Mariner vigorously poling the general on to victory at Trenton.

From Washington Post Jul. 9, 2021

Furthermore, we might want to consider that hidden inside the tale of Huck Finn poling down the river, like a stream within in a stream, is the story of female exile.

From Salon Mar. 13, 2013

Perhaps ten minutes later a boat floated down the serene surface of the canal, a tall lank man with black hair poling it along with leisurely drives of his arms.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury




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