sole
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China’s data docket is light, with Monday’s loan prime-rate announcement the sole major event of note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The president is Trump Media’s largest shareholder, owning 41% held through a revocable trust in which he is the sole beneficiary.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
Since its expansion into original content, Netflix has made it clear that its sole priority is Netflix, not its customers, and certainly not art.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
In her sole season with the Sparks, Nurse averaged 7.6 points per game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
I held up one foot so she could see the sole, as black and hard as if it were made of leather.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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She will re-glue the soles of her shoes so they last a little longer.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
However, the company failed to retain consumers for its other products, including flip-flops with sugarcane-based soles and wool leggings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
He was last seen wearing a quilted green-brown Barbour jacket over a beige woollen jumper, with navy chinos and brown leather trainers with white soles.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
Anisimova, beaten in last year's Wimbledon and US Open finals, showed the first signs of frustration as she whacked the soles of her trainers with her racquet.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
“You ought to be scared to the soles of your feet,” Roy said.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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Then all you have to do is bend forward from the hips until your clubhead is soled behind the ball.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 13, 2019
Early on, they were “skintight,” like a soled sock that crept up the leg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2018
This is also where you buy your black plastic three-litre canteens and your electrolyte powder and the plimsolls soled with carpet that leave no prints.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2017
It would be almost impossible to miss the elegance of the Milanese in summer, the women in sleeveless shifts and high-heeled sandals, the men in brightlycolored cotton trousers and rubber soled driving shoes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2012
He was downcast and burdened with self-approach when he stepped without noise from the colonel’s office on his rubber- soled and rubber-heeled brown shoes.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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But instead of soling the clubhead as usual, set it in front of the ball.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 8, 2018
"I wonder if we can't get something out of the lumber company," mused the younger brother, as he gazed meditatively at his boots, which were sadly in need of soling and heeling.
From To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Stratemeyer, Edward
The other evening while Ellen and I were developing films he was soling a pair of shoes.
From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Barrow, Katherine Mary
Vat do you mean vid your bootless errands, and your soling and healing?
From The Fatal Boots by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Still it was a flexible material and was used, the foreman told Peter, for soling women’s shoes.
From The Story of Leather by Bassett, Sara Ware
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