pole
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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
Verstappen has two eager Ferrari drivers right behind him, after Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton both felt that they had just missed out on a pole position that was possible.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Leclerc was 0.243secs off pole, and ruing what he said was Ferrari "losing a little bit of our raw performance" in the past three or four races.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
I heaved at the end of a log as Granddad and I slid it into the empty top slot of a pole.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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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
Utility poles have been knocked down and electrical cables hang low over the road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 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
Towering wooden poles stick up through its center line, already flying Old Glory.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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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
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
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
He poled the boat over to the rock slope.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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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
Its investigators would also be authorized to enter poling places or offices of any election authority on Election Day, during absentee voting or the canvass of votes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 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
Charon was poling us across a dark, oily river, swirling with bones, dead fish, and other, stranger things—plastic dolls, crushed carnations, soggy diplomas with gilt edges.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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