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Recent Examples of pole
Dan Raby,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Obviously, Devers put a pretty good swing on it and hit off the foul pole.
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Chad Bishop,
AJC.com,
28 June 2026
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
Vonn had registered the fastest time at the first checkpoint and then landed a jump off balance, lifted her left arm and pole high into the air in an attempt to regain her balance.
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CBS News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Instead, police say the man returned with a knife in one hand and a pole in the other.
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Dan Raby,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Obviously, Devers put a pretty good swing on it and hit off the foul pole.
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Chad Bishop,
AJC.com,
28 June 2026
Verb
The textbooks currently state that Jupiter is 88,846 miles (142,984 kilometers) across at its equator, and 83,082 miles (133,708 km) from pole to pole.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
Vonn had registered the fastest time at the first checkpoint and then landed a jump off balance, lifted her left arm and pole high into the air in an attempt to regain her balance.
—
CBS News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pole
Noun
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The story begins with the historic building designed by Edward Durrell Stone in the 1960s as the World Trade Center, with a cruciform plan that nodded to the four corners of the compass and New Orleans’ place as a center of international commerce.
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All that was missing from the game was a rusty shiv in the center circle.
Verb
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Mary Swander, a 75-year-old theater director and former state poet laureate, fondly remembers learning to canoe and swim outdoors while growing up near the water.
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Play golf, kayak or canoe the Sheboygan River, or luxuriate in the spa, which specializes in hydrotherapy.
Noun
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To mitigate the losses, both districts are ramping up the promotion of magnet programs and specialized curricula.
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In simple terms, a stellarator is a fusion power device that confines plasma using external magnets.
Verb
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Lawmakers were expected to try to come up with a new system during the special session but instead appear set to punt the issue until later.
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Will the council send those ideas to voters or punt them for another two years?
Noun
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Bob Whitman was a polestar in the great era before that.
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While his Late Night forerunner Letterman was probably the comedic polestar of Generation X—gruff, cynical, and biting the hand that fed—O’Brien became a bedrock influence for the next generation of Millennial comics.
Verb
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Ride a bike, stretch in a sculpture garden, and kayak a bayou.
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The calm waters of the Chesapeake Bay make Cape Charles’s beaches especially great for little ones and adventurers looking to paddle board or kayak the open water.
Noun
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The action required is not cultural goodwill but actual capital, flowing from institutions, from investors, and from women with wealth toward the work of building these tables.
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Downtown Sacramento was awash in Dodger blue as thousands of fans poured into the capital city for a three-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the A’s that concludes Wednesday.
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It’s situated in downtown Sarasota near Sarasota Bay, putting you close to an array of restaurants and attractions like The Bay park and Selby Gardens.
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Let’s talk about the angst and awkwardness of teenage attraction.
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“Pole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pole. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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