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But after the bond crash of 2002-03, bonds are now so out of fashion and so unloved that the big-money crowd won’t touch them with the proverbial 10- foot pole.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

He shrewdly climbed what he called the greasy pole of Victorian politics, with his party not far behind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Deputies were initially called at 3:20 a.m. to Pacific Coast Highway, near Paradise Cove Road, for reports of a vehicle that crashed into a pole, said Lt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

The race started in front of a record crowd of 175,000 fans with the expectation that Antonelli, imperious through the weekend, would cruise to a comfortable victory from pole position.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

The flag on the pole in front of the school is impossible to ignore.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The Bureau of Street Lighting has played a key role in the proliferation of automated license plate readers, a surveillance tool mounted on poles around the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

Volunteers and relatives of the victims rest under blankets tied to four poles driven into the rubble, which reeks of death.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

Neither was I expecting to be standing thigh-high in a chalk stream surrounded by people armed with poles wearing waders and lifejackets.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Old Tallow’s legs stuck out like poles, tattered makazins flapped on her wagging feet as she drew impatiently upon her pipe.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

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

As for pulling the ball, McCovey Cove in San Francisco is so named because Willie McCovey, that old long-ball hitter, poled home run after home run straight down the line and over right-field fences.

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2017

The men poled the chunks away with their oars as well as they could, but the danger of being “holed” by ice was too great.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

Toward the end of Day 1, Mr. Hartman was poling a relatively shallow flat when a school of reds perhaps 30 strong appeared around us.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2016

Most of the men who lived here were out fishing, some not far from the shore, poling their sampans through the shallow water.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz