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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
Noun
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For her glam, Haddish went with natural makeup and wore her jet-black hair bone straight and parted down the center.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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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
Verb
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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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WeatherTech’s high-profile Super Bowl run has also been a magnet for attracting new business to Pinnacle, Magnusson said.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025
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Both schools are magnets for young people because of their quality and prestige and the weight their respective undergrad and graduate degrees carry throughout the world.—
Dobrina Zhekova,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Jan. 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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Chiefs had punted on their first three possessions.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
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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The journalists traveled to Haiti to show the grim extent of the devastation and barbarism wrought by the gang warfare that has sown chaos in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince.—
Katie Robertson,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov will fly to the Saudi capital later in the day.—
Matthew Lee,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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Venus’ collaboration with Pluto turns an attraction into an obsession.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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But as their friendship blossoms and becomes complicated by Dennis’s attraction to Roman, the story transforms, too, revealing one twist after another, each more somber yet strangely delightful than the previous.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 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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Meanwhile, Gunnison’s Hartman Rocks, one of the state’s most iconic mountain biking areas, is also a mecca for winter pedaling.—
Shauna Farnell,
The Denver Post,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Pole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pole. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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