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[sohl] / soʊl /


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Board member Nichole Morgan, who grew up fishing in the Delta, cast the sole “no” vote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Still, that leaves Virgin Galactic as the sole provider of tourist flights to the edge of space.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Ground-floor sanctuary stays with the congregation, as well as sole ownership of community spaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

That species is the sole representative of its own family, Graphostromataceae.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

There was a silence while Grandpa struck a match on the sole of his shoe, put it to the cigar, and changed the subject.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Footwear giants like Dr. Martens have repeatedly taken online big-box sellers to court over boot designs, while luxury house Christian Louboutin spent years in global litigation defending its signature red soles against high-street copycats.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

When super shoes debuted a decade ago, their chunky soles and springy inside plates revolutionized the world of running.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 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

“And there’s no dried poop stuck in the soles, either.”

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

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

He was downcast and burdened with self-approach when he stepped without noise from the colonel’s office on his rubber- soled and rubber-heeled brown shoes.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

But instead of soling the clubhead as usual, set it in front of the ball.

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 8, 2018

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

Seldom does the cobbler take up with the new-fangled way of soling shoes, and seldom does the artisan willingly take up with new methods in his trade.

From My Life and Work by Henry Ford

"I wonder if we can't get something out of the lumber company," mused the younger brother, as he gazed meditatively at his boots, which were sadly in need of soling and heeling.

From To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Edward Stratemeyer

For the soling of them were made use of eleven hundred hides of brown cows, shapen like the tail of a keeling.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux


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