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sole

[sohl] / soʊl /


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In Illinois, a college senior found himself the sole breadwinner of his family after ICE arrested and detained his uncle.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

In a report earlier this year, a parliamentary committee noted competing opinions on the issue but recommended Canada "indefinitely exclude persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness" from assisted dying.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Martinez requested sole legal and physical custody of Maceo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The following year, Wagner got divorced and ended up with sole ownership of the home.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

It was her sole reason for taking a day off work.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

The soles of Hannah Cox's trainers tell their own story.

From BBC ● 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

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

It was warm against the soles of my bare feet.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

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

She’s wearing black stockings although it’s summer, and sandals, although the sandals are not dainty women’s summer sandals, but thick- soled and artistic, with primitive peasant buckles.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

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

“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

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




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