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Chevron’s pole position garnered it some measure of political esteem in Washington and Caracas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Texas resident Salem Abraham is fighting in court to obtain and publicize Xcel Energy’s power pole inspection records following a massive 2024 fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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 pole won’t be used just yet — it arrives with a texture that can be slick or uneven, so the troupe must spend a couple weeks prepping it for better gripping and friction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The various declination of the needle under different meridians was first discovered by Sebastian Cabbott, and its inclination to the nearer pole by our countryman Robert Norman.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

Norman, Paul and John had poles, but the swirling lines of their casts were shown only in the video, and the fish they caught were left to the imagination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Over the past two years, he has driven hundreds of miles crisscrossing the region, through back alleys and along highways to tally the condition of poles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

In this time, in this place, the world had gone mad with lush and green, throwing vines over old electrical poles and belching up rotten pipelines from the ground.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

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

“Do you suppose,” I asked, as I poled the skiff, the focus of my romantic musings shifting from my own wedding day to Mr. Rice’s, “do you suppose her parents oppose the marriage?”

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

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

Mr. Hartman led us to one of his favorite spots, cut the motor and began poling us across the flat.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2016

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