pole
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“The last thing we need is to have a pole fall onto someone or something if there are high winds,” the bureau’s Clinton Tsurui wrote in the June 4, 2025, email.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
He suffered a gearbox problem and then a front-wing issue in qualifying in China, which may well have denied him pole.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
Skilled workers electrified rural America one pole at a time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Mercedes felt he might have won Japan anyway - and he was on pole, too, and had dropped back only because of a bad start.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
Finally, Annie shimmied up the pole to check the backboard.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
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