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With gas prices pushing higher again, California continues to preserve its pole position as the state with the most expensive pump prices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

For two, whatever $2 tickets you might find in Anaheim put you in the vicinity of the top of a foul pole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

She earned 3,731 points across the four events to top the standings heading into Wednesday's second day of the competition and, with a 49-point advantage over O'Dowda, looked to be in pole position for gold.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

In percentage terms, this was not quite Aston Martin's best performance of the season - they were 0.012% closer to pole in Japan.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

He only had to whack the ball once and it spun spun spun around the pole until it got so high Lizzy couldn’t reach it even when she jumped up on her tippy-toes.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

Brown tree snakes have driven many of Guam's native forest birds to local extinction, and they cause hundreds of power outages each year by climbing utility poles and electrical equipment.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 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

The Bureau of Street Lighting has played a key role in the proliferation of automated license plate readers, a surveillance tool mounted on poles around the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

"Numerous water pipelines have been broken, and many power poles have fallen, leaving the entire island without essential services," Dhali told AFP via Facebook.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

The men shaved their heads and carried long wooden poles with a crook at the top.

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

I poled faster and tried to keep my eyes and mind totally on getting the boat back to the house.

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

Normally when a redfish guide pulls a skiff into an area he wants to explore, fish bolt from it, at least until the guide cuts the motor and begins poling.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2016

A bargeman, poling away from the shore, found Chicken late that afternoon stuck in some rocks and weeds, his knickers ballooning about his legs.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison