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The 32-year-old bounced back from serious injury to celebrate a gold medal on a night when there was a silver for England's mixed 4x400m relay team and a bronze for pole vaulter Owen Heard.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

With gas prices pushing higher again, California continues to preserve its pole position as the state with the most expensive pump prices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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

Lando Norris took his first pole position of the year in Hungary but is cautious about whether he can follow it up with his first victory as world champion.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

The shade of the pole lamp was askew and cast a crazy irregular light over the room.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Brown tree snakes have driven many of Guam's native forest birds to local extinction, and they cause hundreds of power outages each year by climbing utility poles and electrical equipment.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

"Numerous water pipelines have been broken, and many power poles have fallen, leaving the entire island without essential services," Dhali told AFP via Facebook.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

Banners on light poles proclaimed “250” — the birthday celebrated this year by both the mission and the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

It was made in the Indian way of a circle of poles stuck in the ground with their tops bent together and tied.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

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

I poled my skiff from float to float, fishing out the soft crabs and taking them to the crab house to pack them in boxes filled with eelgrass for shipping.

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

Behind me he stands atop a short platform, gently poling the skiff over improbably clear water.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2017

A bargeman, poling away from the shore, found Chicken late that afternoon stuck in some rocks and weeds, his knickers ballooning about his legs.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison