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Recent Examples of pole
Quanta Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
To increase stability, avoid injury, and make the experience more comfortable, pack high-quality, lightweight trekking poles.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2025
WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
Columbia, then Rodinia and most recently Pangea, which formed about 335 million years ago, stretching from pole to pole along the longitudes of the mid-Atlantic.
—Jack Feerick, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2020
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Noun
If all the north poles swiveled upward, say, the chain would become magnetized.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
To increase stability, avoid injury, and make the experience more comfortable, pack high-quality, lightweight trekking poles.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2025
Verb
Being an island at a reasonably high latitude means rockets can launch north over uninhabited ocean, entering into orbit from pole to pole around our planet.
—WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
Columbia, then Rodinia and most recently Pangea, which formed about 335 million years ago, stretching from pole to pole along the longitudes of the mid-Atlantic.
—Jack Feerick, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pole
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With Mark Williams sent back to the Charlotte Hornets over the weekend following the rescinding of the trade to the Los Angeles Lakers for Dalton Knecht, and Nurkic yet to speak to the media after being dealt from Phoenix, some are wondering what’s going on with the Bosnian center.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Feb. 2025
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There was so much clothing donated that donation centers started turning away offers.—
Kristin Deasy,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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Each experience—canoeing across floodplains in Zimbabwe’s Mana Pools National Park; cruising down Uganda’s Kazinga Channel with one of the world’s biggest hippo populations—will upend your safari perspective.—
Alexandra Owens,
AFAR Media,
10 Feb. 2025
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People visit Voyageurs to canoe and fish the lakes for walleye and northern pike.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
21 Jan. 2025
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Create a system where the neighborhood school effectively competes with the magnets; at the end of the day, Hartford is stronger with strong neighborhood schools than with strong magnet schools.—
John Q. Gale,
Hartford Courant,
17 Feb. 2025
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According to the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, the US push for domestic mining and processing is a challenge to China’s dominance over 90 percent of global rare earth ore processing and critical materials like neodymium magnets, which secure its geopolitical leverage.—
Michaela Rychetska and Aissa Dearing,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Feb. 2025
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Chiefs had punted on their first three possessions.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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If the Senate approach prevails, tech action may get punted to a later time.—
Maria Curi,
Axios,
13 Feb. 2025
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Maison Proust, Paris (Image credit: Maison Proust) Opulence is the polestar at Maison Proust.—
Catherine Garcia,
theweek,
7 Nov. 2024
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Durazzi had horses freely roaming the garden; inside the gallery, models were standing on a felt-padded plinth, while images of women who are the designer’s polestars—artists, scientists, and intellectuals from Phoebe Boswell to Carla Cerati to Ottessa Moshfegh—were projected on their faces.—
Tiziana Cardini,
Vogue,
15 Mar. 2023
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Commissioned by the Kosovo authorities for the country's capital Pristina, the Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kosovo is being created in collaboration with local studio ALB-Architect and will measure 42,395 sq m (456,403 sq ft).—
Adam Williams,
New Atlas,
17 Feb. 2025
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Some state capitals boast incredible job markets, high average salaries, world-class universities, and an abundance of attractions.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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There are a few things the team wants to focus on next: continuing to grow the sushi program, along with the omakase experience, and working to make the drinks and bar service more of an attraction on its own accord.—
Sunny Hubler,
Charlotte Observer,
19 Feb. 2025
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While Lanzmann is barely seen in Shoah itself, most of the footage here turns him into the main attraction — something that the director, despite all his ego-tripping, may very well have objected to.—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Feb. 2025
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The Nashville metropolitan area has a population of about 2 million people and has long been a center for music and a mecca for tourism, but has also evolved into a tech hub and a magnet for world-class hotels and music streaming companies.—
David Moin,
WWD,
29 Jan. 2025
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But how did stars such as A$AP Rocky and Pharrell stumble upon the store, especially given Tokyo is a mecca for vintage?—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Pole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pole. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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