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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has nominated acting Bank Indonesia Governor Destry Damayanti as the sole candidate to lead the central bank, a move that could signal policy continuity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Muncy had to fight for the homer that would give him sole possession for the record of most home runs at Dodger Stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
And the terms are being rewritten in real time by the sole signatory.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
"I'm the sole survivor of my family," said Yousef Abu Sharia, standing nearby.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Each time the sole of my left foot hits the ground, pain radiates up my shin.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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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
However, the company failed to retain consumers for its other products, including flip-flops with sugarcane-based soles and wool leggings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
He was last seen wearing a quilted green-brown Barbour jacket over a beige woollen jumper, with navy chinos and brown leather trainers with white soles.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
It was two miles along a road totally without shade and so hot I could feel the heat through the soles of my boots.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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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
Any thinly soled sneakers or comfortable workout shoes will do.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2011
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
I searched the pockets with repugnance and found a few papers, which smelled like the covers of ancient books, memoranda of miserable little transactions--threepence paid for soling shoes, twopence here, a penny there; nothing more.
From The Maid-At-Arms by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Still it was a flexible material and was used, the foreman told Peter, for soling women’s shoes.
From The Story of Leather by Sara Ware Bassett
Vat do you mean vid your bootless errands, and your soling and healing?
From The Fatal Boots by William Makepeace Thackeray
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