cork

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When Farahanipour heard about Khamenei’s death, he popped the cork from a champagne bottle and celebrated “the happiest moment of my life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2026

A cork is when a spin is combined with a flip, resulting in an 'off-axis' direction of travel resembling a corkscrew.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

Removing the cork reduces that pressure, allowing gas to separate into bubbles.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2025

Along with the occasional joke that pops off like a cork exiting a bottle of Moët & Chandon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

The most famous of the microscopical discoveries reported by Hooke in his masterpiece was the ‘cellular’ structure of slices of cork viewed under the microscope.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin