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Noun
Other clips capture pole dancers at a strip club and visuals of Toliver graffitiing a beat-up car. Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2025 The majority of the collisions involved vehicles striking signs or street poles. Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 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 See All Example Sentences for pole
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pole
Noun
  • Rather than making call centers obsolete, AI is set to redefine the role of human agents.
    Danny Asnani, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The center warns beachgoers to not interact with the animals on the beach and instead contact their team for help with distressed animals.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Just down the road, guests can go canoeing, visit the Maui Ocean Center, or swim at Black Rock Beach.
    Esther Carlstone, Parents, 18 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • Linking the robots was a job of magnets that could rotate to maintain adhesion regardless of their orientation.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The Sphere, which connects to the Venetian Resort, has also become a magnet for visitors who want to gape at the visually arresting exosphere, which, as of July also includes a musical backdrop within the footprint of the venue.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, Araiza punted and the Eagles closed out the half.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Remember, this was more than a decade ago, when coaches were far more conservative in deciding to go for it or punt.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Maison Proust, Paris (Image credit: Maison Proust) Opulence is the polestar at Maison Proust.
    Catherine Garcia, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • More Deebo Samuel news: 49ers Send Star WR Deebo Samuel to Commanders in Blockbuster Trade Samuel will take his talents to the nation's capital and look to take the Commanders to the next level after an excellent year for the young Washington team.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Small-caps — which Fidelity defines as companies with market values between $300 million and $2 billion — typically have fewer financial resources, limited access to capital, and often rely heavily on debt.
    Paulina Likos, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • All include Agra and the Taj Mahal, plus a range of top attractions such as tigers or Udaipur, the lake city, Varanasi, and Jaipur, the pink city.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Roller coaster fans gathered on the outskirts of the park to watch the implosion, with many expressing sadness online regarding the destruction of the beloved attraction, which opened in 2005 as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.
    EW.com, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Those who love thrifting will also find the city a mecca for preloved vintage goods.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The most urgent big-wave alert, a high surf warning, is in effect for parts of Hawaii, including surfing's mecca, the North Shore, where waves of 50 feet are possible Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2024

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“Pole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pole. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.

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