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Later, high atop a telephone pole, Alyssa retrieves a valuable pair of dangling Jordans off a live electrical wire, to mixed results.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
In Grand Junction, Colo., a shiny new police car drove into a municipal parking lot on a routine assignment, slowly cruised around as the driver checked the left side and his companion checked the right, smacked head-on into a telephone pole.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Still, some observers sense something a bit sinister behind the playfulness of contest after contest, advertised with poster after poster on telephone pole after telephone pole.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
Next to it was a telephone pole with loose wires and metal siding wrapped around it.
—Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
In Grand Junction, Colo., a shiny new police car drove into a municipal parking lot on a routine assignment, slowly cruised around as the driver checked the left side and his companion checked the right, smacked head-on into a telephone pole.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Still, some observers sense something a bit sinister behind the playfulness of contest after contest, advertised with poster after poster on telephone pole after telephone pole.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
Next to it was a telephone pole with loose wires and metal siding wrapped around it.
—Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Telephone pole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telephone%20pole. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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