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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

Norris had not taken pole since the Spanish Grand Prix in September, and although his McLaren has upgrades on it, which he acknowledged had improved the car, he felt he owed it to the conditions.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

McLaren's Lando Norris took pole position for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix in a wet qualifying session at Interlagos delayed by nearly an hour and a half for heavy rain.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

"That's important in circumstances like these and it would have meant a lot to me to clinch the pole with a great performance like we showed in qualifying."

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

My mouth hung open, and I almost dropped my borrowed pole in the water.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

In the best car in the field, Antonelli took six poles and six wins in the first 11 races, establishing a 50-point lead in the championship.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

NGC 660 displays a rare "polar ring" structure, with a ring of stars orbiting around the galaxy's poles rather than following its main plane.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

There's no sign saying so, but such poles are not considered private.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

Roman trumpet with the rattle of the sistrum, chased the Liburnian prow with a poled barge, spread her foul mosquito nets over the Tarpeian Rock, and gave judgements among Marius’ weapons and statues.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

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

Call ran home to dinner, and I rowed back around the island as far as the South Gut, where I traded oars for the pole and poled the rest of the way home.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

In Aso’s manga, just after the Joker figure appears, Arisu envisions a scene of a large, humanoid creature poling a boat full of figures across a body of water toward a distant shore.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025

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

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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