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cone

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

Will he break the cone of silence and tell us what he thinks?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

Unlike the rest of the retina, where all three cone types are present, the foveola contains only red and green cones.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

Sassur gave us a few coins to buy a cone of spun sugar.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Researchers discovered shatter cones in numerous rock outcrops.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Large chunks of concrete could be seen scattered around and inside the collapsed area, while orange traffic cones cordoned off the site as workers surveyed the damage.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Traffic cones have been placed around the crater, and AFP reported that waves pounding the sea front can be seen "lapping in the hole and rushing out again under the stanchions that support the home".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Traffic cones are set back from the crater, which appears to be perilously close to swallowing the house's double garage.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

When the ladders had been taken away, the manager had twelve ice-cream cones brought in for the penguins.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

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

In yet another form the inner face of the pulley rim is coned, and in place of shoes a disk, whose circumference is coned to fit the pulley rim, is fast upon the shaft.

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 longed very much to come, they knew, and they permitted themselves to hope, almost to believe, that they would see him again, and waited for his coning with what patience they could command.

From Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson




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