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He wrote: "In the battle of the 2015 behemoths, the maxed-out madness of Mad Max: Fury Road sets an extraordinarily high bar - then pole-vaults clean over it and smashes the entire rig to smithereens."

From BBC • May 11, 2015

It’s when it pole-vaults into the metaphysical empyrean that the strain shows.

From Time • Sep. 10, 2012

Sophia Hu, who pole-vaults for the track team and is deaf, accurately wrote down 120 random words in their given order.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2011

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