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pole

[pohl] / poʊl /


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These records stood in stark contrast to conditions at the opposite pole, where Arctic sea ice was undergoing a steep decline.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The satellite maps also contain a white circular region at the North Pole known as the "pole hole."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Singapore GP Saturday Review: Sprint chaos & who would take pole?

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Dominant through every part of qualifying for his first pole of the season.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

But everything—every tree, every electric pole, every car, every roof and window and wall—was damaged or destroyed.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

We see this happen on Venus -- there's almost no difference in surface temperature between the day and night sides, or between the poles and the equator.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Some of the more dramatic effects from global warming are taking place in the poles, which occupy around 20 percent of the global ocean surface.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

He was the first person to visit both north and south poles by surface means in the early 1980s and has been described by The Guinness Book of Records as "the world's greatest living explorer".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The Texas trader fighting his utility over power poles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

In the story, this boy named Wiley went looking for poles to build a hen roost, and the Hairy Man attacked him, but Wiley’s hounds scared him off.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

The crystals used in the experiments were carefully grown and then exposed to the electric field, or "poled," by Raffi Sahul at Amphenol Corporation.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

Roman trumpet with the rattle of the sistrum, chased the Liburnian prow with a poled barge, spread her foul mosquito nets over the Tarpeian Rock, and gave judgements among Marius’ weapons and statues.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Doing the heavy lifting, however, were crew members — usually enslaved people, freedmen or poor White people — extraordinary watermen who poled their flotillas to market in Richmond.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2022

“We always had a southern swamp opening, lots of hanging Spanish moss ... one number, she entered on a raft poled by one of the dancers across a dry ice stage.”

From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2018

“Do you suppose,” I asked, as I poled the skiff, the focus of my romantic musings shifting from my own wedding day to Mr. Rice’s, “do you suppose her parents oppose the marriage?”

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

The spokesperson said they were working "to overcome additional challenges such as secondary damages and additional poling and cabling work in some areas".

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2025

These shorter wavelengths are achieved when the trapped light in the cavity undergoes a process called all-optical poling, which induces what is known as second-order nonlinearity in the silicon nitride.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2023

In the famous painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” by Emanuel Leutze, there, at George Washington’s right knee, is a Marblehead Mariner vigorously poling the general on to victory at Trenton.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021

“We’re going to get into the world of different poling techniques,” Mr. Paulsen said.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2014

Most of the men who lived here were out fishing, some not far from the shore, poling their sampans through the shallow water.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz


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