sole
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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