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That allowed the Dodgers to tie the score in the bottom of the sixth on Tommy Edman’s seventh home run of the season just inside the right-field foul pole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

This is roughly analogous to me asserting that running headfirst into a telephone pole at a full sprint will not affect my health because I do not “intend” to concuss myself.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

This was Norris' third pole of the year, and after the first two he took dominant wins in Hungary and the Netherlands.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Authorities also said one vehicle struck a pole and that a pedestrian was injured.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Jackson asked as he pounded a tent pole into the frozen ground.

From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis

On a summer night alongside the Colorado River, a line of telegraph poles is set alight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

There were seats assigned by state and indicated by tall signs on poles, there was a host of precisely timed and deeply forgettable speeches by elected officials, and, of course, there was a keynote speaker.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026

Plaid had said it would establish a "strong presumption in favour of undergrounding", and the "use of wooden poles where necessary".

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Firefighters responded, opened the rear end of the truck and used pike poles to remove the garbage by hand, according to Samuel Menchaca, a public information officer with the San Francisco Fire Department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Dwight and Lenny made some Lost Dog signs and we nailed them to telephone poles and fence posts.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

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

I poled faster and tried to keep my eyes and mind totally on getting the boat back to the house.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

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

Its investigators would also be authorized to enter poling places or offices of any election authority on Election Day, during absentee voting or the canvass of votes.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 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