sole
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He attributes the success of the festival to its "totally inclusive" nature and its sole focus on "the celebration of music and culture and dance and song".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I do not think it is in my, Meta’s, or the world’s best interests for me or anyone else to be a sole decision maker on how superintelligence is deployed,” he writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
And the terms are being rewritten in real time by the sole signatory.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
I can’t have been the only person who bought an opening weekend ticket for the sole purpose of finding out if/when/how Peter and MJ would find their way back to each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Officials began to suspect that Myers was the sole killer and was desperately trying to implicate others to minimize his culpability.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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
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
East Texas clay mixes with plaster dust from the school; red sludge sucks at the soles of work boots.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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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
"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
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
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
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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