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Verstappen has two eager Ferrari drivers right behind him, after Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton both felt that they had just missed out on a pole position that was possible.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Red Bull's Max Verstappen took his second pole position in a week by beating the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton in qualifying at the Singapore Grand Prix.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Verstappen's first lap in final qualifying was enough to take pole, his time fending off a second lap from Leclerc that was 0.054 seconds off pole.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The four-time champion said he had not believed pole was possible before qualifying.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Multiplying by zero is like sticking a needle on the north pole and everything winds up at zero: anything times zero is zero.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

We see this happen on Venus -- there's almost no difference in surface temperature between the day and night sides, or between the poles and the equator.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Some of the more dramatic effects from global warming are taking place in the poles, which occupy around 20 percent of the global ocean surface.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The poles of triumph and despair are the terrain of writers such as Charles Dickens—or, as Sam Sacks notes, the novelist Barbara Kingsolver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

He was the first person to visit both north and south poles by surface means in the early 1980s and has been described by The Guinness Book of Records as "the world's greatest living explorer".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The Count in his box, then, was on a river in an open boat—propelled probably either by oars or poles, for the banks are near and it is working against stream.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

Small boats poled past, carrying food and laborers and shore-leave sailors.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

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

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

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