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Area manager at Auction House Notts & Derby, Jonathan Way, said he believed it was a "creepy doll" left standing in the corner of a bedroom that had captured people's imaginations.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The pilot reported mechanical difficulties moments before the crash in the southeast corner of the airport, The Times reported at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
From a government perspective, Jones said a slight year-on-year drop in recorded shoplifting crimes indicated the country had "turned that corner".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
A disliked corner of the stock market really isn’t as bad as it seems, according to StoneX.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
In line at the pickup window, I saw license plates from every corner of Turtle Island.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Blackpool's Charlie Adam took penalties, free-kicks, corners and would probably have had goalkicks too if they let him.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
When people will show up to see a movie regardless of its content or quality, filmmakers can cut all the corners they want.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
The new circuit, known as the 'Madring', is a demanding 5.4-kilometre track with 22 corners, including its headline feature, a 24-percent-banked turn nicknamed "La Monumental".
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
The horrors came from all corners of the continent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
He presses the corners of his eyes, tears falling around his fingers.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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The unharmed horse was eventually cornered by police, before being lassoed.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Prime Video has cornered the market on young-adult fiction, catering to a massive audience of women and girls who want to escape into love stories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Christ was cornered — pay taxes to Rome, or be branded a traitor — and so he turned the trap into a statement about the limits of power.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Some of the recent videos show the runners bumping into security guards and shoving past church staff, then leaving after being cornered and told to get off the property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
But he never could have foreseen the way they’d been cornered in the harbor, and he certainly couldn’t have imagined what Nina had done to get them out of it.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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With ambitions of cornering the electric vehicle market, India is also on the lookout for critical minerals such as lithium -- another resource Australia has in abundance.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Its cornering of an “extraordinary 90 percent of global production” of chemicals and dyes sparked fears of dependency among the Allies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
In other words, it is the track where cornering performance - particularly at low and medium-speed - is most important, and engine power least.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
No surprise, the CX-50 has some handles, with taut body control and keen line-tracing in transient cornering and braking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
The match must have finished hours ago...as had any hope of cornering Malfoy.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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