pole
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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