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corn

[kawrn] / kɔrn /


NOUN
cereal
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Make the corn sauce: Simmer half the corn with 1 cup stock for about 12 minutes, until tender, adding more stock if needed.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

Add the onion and remaining corn and cook over medium-low until the onion softens.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

U.S. corn yield forecast, in bushels an acre, for the 2026/27 season, down from the Agriculture Department’s projection in July for 183 bushels an acre.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Menu offerings include appetizers such as Dungeness crab cakes and lobster corn dogs, and entrées such as crispy chicken Milanese, honey miso glazed salmon and a signature Skywalker Ranch Wagyu burger.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Some said they couldn’t afford to let their corn crops wither away.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

It’s built around the idea of a tale of two corns.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2024

The emperor wore his hat with the corns parallel to shoulders - known as "en bataille" - whereas most of his officers wore their hats perpendicular to the shoulders.

From BBC Nov. 18, 2023

As for nutrition, 19 candy corns amount to about 140 calories and 28 grams of sugar.

From Washington Times Oct. 24, 2023

Calluses and corns are thickened areas of skin that form on toes or the soles of feet as a result of pressure, often from poorly fitting shoes.

From Washington Post Jul. 18, 2022

I swear, the more I wear pageant heels, the more I can see corns and bunions in my future.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

The corned beef sandwich is one of my personal favorites; it has a certain nostalgia for me.

From Salon Sep. 21, 2024

It is a far cry from the infamous tour to India in 1993, when the England squad survived on tinned corned beef and naan bread.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2024

“We would do corned beef tacos over there,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2023

For an article on deli sandwiches, she collected 104 corned beef and pastrami samples in one day to evaluate the meat and sandwich-building techniques.

From Seattle Times Apr. 7, 2023

Grandpa Ed’s corned beef and hash looks like the many blobs of roadkill Annabelle has seen.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Corned beef, on the other hand, is salt cured — hence the corning process.

From Salon Apr. 12, 2022

Hybrid striped bass are fair with spinners, and highly shaky rattle traps corning bait in shallow water.

From Washington Times Oct. 21, 2020

You need only start by corning your own beef.

From New York Times Mar. 6, 2017

The American people will be called upon to bear heavy burdens in the corning year.

From Time Magazine Archive

She could feel the power of the great creature corning off him like waves of heat “I must work till sunset,” he said.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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