cone
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Madonna’s Jean Paul Gaultier-designed cone bra was a star attraction of her 1990 “Blond Ambition” tour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The 31-year-old Mexican tourist walked out with a cone of vanilla and chocolate swirl soft serve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The volcano could build a tuff cone with a long lived vent crater, or the new land could quickly collapse and erode away.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
The cone of silence around the wedding is the only place in which these dueling Swifts can freely coexist.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
His back leg is wrapped up and he’s wearing a fabric cone around his neck.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
Whitemountain Quarries indicated that they would put up their own cones and signs.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Residents have resorted to using orange cones to stop Waymos from driving through alleyways or onto the lots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
They were formed with cones, shipping pallets, chairs, trash bins, or even neighbors inside a traffic circle.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Corrections & Amplifications Autonomous vehicles have also failed to recognize traffic cones, flashing lights, and other safety threats such as smoke and fire, according to a Wednesday letter from Jonathan Morrison.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Small cones of damp plaster standing in the floor.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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
This table is sharply coned, and can be made to work the dough as much or as little as may be required.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
They tell me that coning may be one of the first physical protests against artificial intelligence - and that these kinds of human actions are going to become more and more common.
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
"I saw Mr. Munt coning up from the boat," she said in answer to Mavering's demand for some sort of astonishment from her.
From April Hopes by Howells, William Dean
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