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On Sunday, Team Scotland stood out at the closing ceremony with traffic cone hats, in a nod to the iconic Duke of Wellingston statue.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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

Humans are unusual in having three different cone types that together allow a broad range of color vision.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 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

“No double-scoop cookie dough on a sugar cone? With sprinkles? What happened?”

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

The department urged beachgoers not to cross safety cones, caution tape or barriers for their safety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

If he doesn’t, markets won’t stop trying to guess what he’s thinking: they’ll just rely on other Fed officials’ commentaries, some random bit of data, the latest version of purple traffic cones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Boreal forests are also supposed to burn on an infrequent basis, in order to open up certain pine cones and spread their seeds, or to clear out lower tree branches.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

But nowadays, the formerly sleepy streets are awash with diggers, orange construction cones and out-of-state license plates.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Fadi dove behind a tree just as Felix ran over, carrying two large ice cream cones.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

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

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

Mandrels or arbors are sometimes made adjustable for diameter by forcing a split cone upon a coned plug, examples being given in the following figures, which are extracted from Mechanics.

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

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

“True, ours has been a courtship in which the bitter and the sweet have been equally mingled, but now the peace complete is coning love, for King Philip is dead and the war is over.”

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various