sole
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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