sole
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At Saturday's conference members voted for Ozel, the sole candidate, to be Yeni's leader.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
He led its real-estate business in the Americas before becoming global co-head alongside McCarthy in January 2024 and took over as sole head this January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
The sole goal of the primary for Raman’s campaign was, self-evidently, to make it out of the primary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
Your brother has an easier job here; he just has to stand firm, and provide you with the documents showing that he is the sole heir.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Mudd stood at one end of the sofa, took firm grip of the heel and sole, and tugged.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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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
A decade ago, Nike created mysterious prototypes featuring giant soles and rigid interior plates that functioned like springs, unleashing the “super shoe” era across the sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Each hub brought together suppliers of laces, soles and fabric, as well as logistics firms that help to quickly turn designs into store-ready products and ship them out.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
She will re-glue the soles of her shoes so they last a little longer.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
Any hotter, and my shoes’ guttapercha soles might melt to the floor.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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
Norman stood with his legs spread wide and his arms and legs stiff, the clubhead soled about a foot behind the ball.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013
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
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
Oak sole leather, the foreman said, was often considered preferable for soling shoes because its close fibre rendered it waterproof, and it seldom cracked.
From The Story of Leather by Sara Ware Bassett
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
“Huh,” said he, “his shoes need soling, that’s one sure thing.”
From Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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