sole
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However Madrid has made no secret of its longer-term ambition -- to become Spain's sole Formula 1 destination and, as the city council puts it, establish itself as the "world capital of sport".
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
The man, the driver and sole occupant of the car, was traveling north on Grand Avenue and veered off the roadway and through a guardrail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Robin's father, nicknamed 'Iceman', was the most recent Ferrari driver to become world champion, claiming his sole title in 2007.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
It may be difficult to attribute a sole drone incident to a specific perpetrator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Even Babulya created tenuous friendships with the collection of grandmothers whose sole purpose seemed to be creating warm garments for any child who got too close to them.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
The shoes sport chunky soles with rigid, curved carbon plates and lightweight foam, and Nike asserts they improve running economy by as much as 4%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026
The soles of Hannah Cox's trainers tell their own story.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
She will re-glue the soles of her shoes so they last a little longer.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
Then picture adding sugar cane soles, calling them eco-friendly sneakers, becoming a Silicon Valley status symbol, and going public in 2021 with a market value that briefly topped $4 billion.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
We did the kicks over and over, until my thigh muscles ached and the soles of my feet tingled.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
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Then all you have to do is bend forward from the hips until your clubhead is soled behind the ball.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 13, 2019
Early on, they were “skintight,” like a soled sock that crept up the leg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2018
This is also where you buy your black plastic three-litre canteens and your electrolyte powder and the plimsolls soled with carpet that leave no prints.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2017
It would be almost impossible to miss the elegance of the Milanese in summer, the women in sleeveless shifts and high-heeled sandals, the men in brightlycolored cotton trousers and rubber soled driving shoes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2012
The robot rose erect smoothly and his thickly sponge-rubber soled feet made no noise as he followed Powell.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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But instead of soling the clubhead as usual, set it in front of the ball.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 8, 2018
A friendly cobbler had taught him how to make boots and shoes, new soling and mending; and he once had the courage to suspend over his door the sign of a shoemaker's shop.
From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
The other evening while Ellen and I were developing films he was soling a pair of shoes.
From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Katherine Mary Barrow
If you know naught of soling, I understand nothing of sausages; you, who cut bad leather on the slant to make it look stout and deceive the country yokels.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
What do you think I was charged for soling and heeling shoes?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 by Various
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