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[sohl] / soʊl /


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But Weiss did not know, immediately after Saturday’s loss, when he’d be able to deploy his sole ace, 37-year-old Chris Sale, the 10-time All-Star who just pitched in the Braves’ Game 3 wild-card closeout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Martinez requested sole legal and physical custody of Maceo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The following year, Wagner got divorced and ended up with sole ownership of the home.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

The deal makes Boeing the sole provider of sixth-generation tactical fighters for both the Navy and Air Force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

You could sense his pride that he had come at last into a man’s estate, the sole support of the women upon whom he had until now depended.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

Footwear giants like Dr. Martens have repeatedly taken online big-box sellers to court over boot designs, while luxury house Christian Louboutin spent years in global litigation defending its signature red soles against high-street copycats.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Often, brands make the soles even lighter by injecting gases such as nitrogen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

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

The woman looked at him then, examining him from the soles of his muddy feet to his sweaty, cropped hair, and once more she smiled.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

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

She’s wearing black stockings although it’s summer, and sandals, although the sandals are not dainty women’s summer sandals, but thick- soled and artistic, with primitive peasant buckles.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

But instead of soling the clubhead as usual, set it in front of the ball.

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 8, 2018

Still it was a flexible material and was used, the foreman told Peter, for soling women’s shoes.

From The Story of Leather by Sara Ware Bassett

Seldom does the cobbler take up with the new-fangled way of soling shoes, and seldom does the artisan willingly take up with new methods in his trade.

From My Life and Work by Henry Ford

The greater part of the next day Jerome passed, as usual, soling shoes in Ozias Lamb's shop.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

"The boots want soling," cried the sick sailor in a deep voice.

From The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories by Gilbert Cannan




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