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Spain's Alex Palou, the season points leader who has won six times this year, captured his seventh pole position of the campaign with a qualifying lap of 56.899 seconds after topping practice laps at 56.614.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Lando Norris starts the first grand prix after Formula 1's summer break in the same place as he started the one before it - on pole.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 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

Several days passed before Israel’s military helped U.N. personnel locate the bodies, which were in a mass grave by a white electricity pole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Jackson asked as he pounded a tent pole into the frozen ground.

From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis

AFP saw several residents of the small town of Mbay, in Nagekeo regency nearest the epicentre, camped out in makeshift tents they had erected using tarpaulins and poles.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

That has meant getting practice in at climbing centres and using poles at a dance and burlesque studio in Kilmarnock.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Near a planet's poles, however, there are funnel-shaped openings known as "magnetospheric cusps."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

The new live album spends most of the program alternating between the two poles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

They constructed rickety shelves from packing crates, and hung their gear from tent poles or stored it in empty cans.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

I poled the boat in close before he heard us and looked up.

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

Behind me he stands atop a short platform, gently poling the skiff over improbably clear water.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2017

Out on the trails again Mr. Cunningham introduced us to yet another poling technique, this one for climbing, called “offset.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2014

Perhaps ten minutes later a boat floated down the serene surface of the canal, a tall lank man with black hair poling it along with leisurely drives of his arms.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury