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sole

[sohl] / soʊl /


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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

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

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

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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