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He bumped a pole while backing up, then missed a hoop toss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The orbiter circles the Moon from pole to pole once every two hours as the Moon slowly rotates beneath it.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

There were stand-out moments - Antonelli out-qualified Russell at the second race of the season on the high-speed Jeddah street circuit and stuck it on pole for the sprint in Miami.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

They’re almost always surfer dudes with the fearless spirit of a pole vaulter and the willingness to experiment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Some prodding and shoving with a pole in the grooves of the stem-winder made it turn round a dozen times.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

If you’re walking for exercise, walking poles are an excellent option.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

By summer 1895, students were lobbing small balls into waste paper baskets perched upon poles on the lawn of a new Dartford talent factory: Madame Bergman Osterberg's Physical Training College.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

He had to grip onto street poles just to keep himself up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

A portion of those particles are channeled to Earth’s magnetic poles, and when the solar wind is particularly active, they become visible as the aurora borealis and aurora australis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

A few poles remained of the village that had once been there, and a few pumpkin mounds with vegetables gone wild.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

As we poled over to retrieve it, Pastrana pointed out a good-size fish by the mangroves to the left.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 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

Steamboats could travel faster and more cheaply than sailing vessels or keelboats, which floated downriver and had to be poled or towed upriver on the return voyage.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

Deepwater fishing boats and river runners came and went, ferrymen poled back and forth across the Blackwater Rush, trading galleys unloaded goods from Braavos and Pentos and Lys.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

Day 2 promised new opportunities, and just before noon, Mr. Hartman stopped poling.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2016

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