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[sohl] / soʊl /


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The Old Trafford-based side, renamed the Super Giants from this season having preivously been the Originals, lost two previous men's finals, including to the Rockets in 2022, which remains their sole men's title.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

He attributes the success of the festival to its "totally inclusive" nature and its sole focus on "the celebration of music and culture and dance and song".

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Muncy had to fight for the homer that would give him sole possession for the record of most home runs at Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

What constitutes “comparable or better,” the policy states, is determined by StubHub “in its sole discretion based on cost, quality, availability and other factors.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

I catch the stray backpack strap with the sole of my decidedly less glamorous sneaker and drag it out of the aisle.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The shoes sport chunky soles with rigid, curved carbon plates and lightweight foam, and Nike asserts they improve running economy by as much as 4%.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 2026

The soles of Hannah Cox's trainers tell their own story.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

She will re-glue the soles of her shoes so they last a little longer.

From Slate Apr. 19, 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

Jam puffed out a hard breath and focused on the soles of her bare feet, pressing them into the wood of the floor, uneven with age and paint and rough varnish.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

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

If you know naught of soling, I understand nothing of sausages; you, who cut bad leather on the slant to make it look stout and deceive the country yokels.

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes

What do you think I was charged for soling and heeling shoes?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 by Various

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

For the soling of them were made use of eleven hundred hides of brown cows, shapen like the tail of a keeling.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux




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