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cone

[kohn] / koʊn /
NOUN
circular-shaped object with pointed end
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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

At one moment the orbiter looks alive — with its black, doglike cone nose and deep nostrils.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The familiar cone has historically placed greater emphasis on coastal regions, even though dangerous storm conditions can extend far from the shoreline.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Many people incorrectly interpret the width of the cone as an indication of a storm's physical size, rather than understanding what the graphic is intended to communicate about the uncertainty in its projected track.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Sitting beside him at last, feeling his warmth as they ate ice cream together and laughed at Lydia's efforts with a cone, Ann believed that maybe things would work out for them after all.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

The foveola contains red and green cones but lacks blue cones, which are found in other retinal regions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

One of the keys to understanding the foveola is a group of specialized light-detecting cells called cones.

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

“So if we went to the zoo, you’d pay for one of those little cones of birdseed and take it into the aviary to feed them?”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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

“Right where the hole goes in, it slopes, and it’s flattened out, and it coned back down, and that was where some really loose sediment was, and I could stick my hands into it.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2018

The mouth of a is coned to receive the arbors or mandrels for driving the mills or cutters.

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

He lay a long time tossing, and proing and coning, without being able to arrive at any satisfactory solution of the matter.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees


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