cone
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The cone of silence around the wedding is the only place in which these dueling Swifts can freely coexist.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
The new findings suggest that the cone pattern in the foveola is established through a coordinated sequence of events early in fetal development.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
The cone of silence that’s followed the wedding is the only place in which these dueling Swifts can freely coexist.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
When athletes arrive at this summer's Commonwealth Games in the city, they will be greeted by mascot Finnie, a unicorn with a cone on its head.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
There’s a neon sign on the wall shaped like an ice-cream cone, black-and-white tiled floors, and a jukebox in the corner.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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Vision begins when rods and cones in the retina detect light.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Binface himself has run in several in recent years, with a platform that included capping the cost of the chocolate sticks people in Britain like to stick into their ice-cream cones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Edible Arrangements’ strawberry and banana cones offer the fun of chocolate-dipped fruit without committing to one of the brand’s elaborate arrangements.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Oborski trapped the vehicles in what he described as a “corral” using traffic cones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Then Whit placed one of the cones just before the curve on the track, and another, I don't know, maybe twenty feet into the curve.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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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
The pins b and g and the coned holes should be of cast steel hardened, so as to avoid wear as much as possible.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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
“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
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