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A muon, for example, generates a cone of Cherenkov light as it travels through the ice.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

Humans have three types of cone cells, each most sensitive to different wavelengths of light.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

In the tourist traps of the 5th and 7th, it has been turned into an oversize ice-cream cone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

In the post, Wouter was pictured wearing a dog cone, which is used to prevent pets from licking, chewing or scratching surgical sites or wounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Take a cone and cut it up; you get circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas, depending on how you slice it.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The researchers discovered evidence that the arrangement of cones in the foveola develops through two coordinated processes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Rather than simply relocating, at least some blue cones may undergo a change in identity, becoming red or green cones as the eye develops.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The couple grew the seedlings from cones collected at Sequoia & Canyon National Parks and obtained phytosanitary certificates to transport them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Many are framed by garlands of ripe-for-the-picking fruits and vegetables and assorted vegetation such as pine cones, a rare instance of still-life in sculpture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Somkit pointed to the tinfoil cones cupped around the lights.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

Visitors to the GoMA can also part with £15 to get their hands on a coned Duke of Wellington tote bag or £20 for a T-shirt.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

Forensic teams remained at the scene on Sunday, and one lane of the eastbound carriageway was coned off.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

The hole covering was unmarked and “not coned off nor identified in any way,” the complaint says.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

The ski-slope pre-credit sequence ought to be scooped and coned; and the climactic mine-shaft explosion looks like it cost a lot of money and geology.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2020

It runs in bearings which are split and are coned externally, fitting into correspondingly coned holes in the headstock.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

Safe Street Rebel describes what it does as "coning" and some of its videos have gone viral.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2023

Speaking to the Standard, an unnamed Waymo spokesperson called the coning “vandalism” that “encourages unsafe and disrespectful behavior on our roadways.”

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2023

“I was born and raised in Southern California. I’m going to help my people out, especially when people are coning to me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2018

Justin Bieber is a drive-thru jerk: Justin Bieber, prince of pranks, tapes himself "coning" a poor Wendy's employee.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2011

That was just the way he said it, deep an' hoarse an' coning between his set teeth; an' I felt the hair raisin' on my head.

From Happy Hawkins by Robert Alexander Wason