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The landmark Casa Vega Mexican restaurant in Sherman Oaks was honored in May with a sign proclaiming its corner of Ventura Boulevard as “Casa Vega Square.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
In the corner of the room there were household items, food and water and diapers and paper towels.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
Tennis star Taylor Fritz is serving up his Miami condo for $860,000, offering a buyer the chance to score a corner residence with sweeping views—and a tennis court just downstairs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
In the company’s Tampa, Fla., offices, a poster of Don Quixote, the fictional knight who tilted at windmills, hangs on the wall, with a smaller portrait of Wray in the corner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Sadie shouted, leaping out from around the corner.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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That's because of the switch between having the front and rear wings open in drag-reduction mode on the straights and closing in corners means the cars drop down towards the ground when they brake.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Peer into one of social media’s dark corners: Family estrangement is one of the most complicated situations to navigate for parents and children alike.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
But he’s cautious about corners of the market that appear more speculative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
This has given hard-hit corners of the market a chance to shine.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
She had shiny black hair and kind black eyes that crinkled at the corners when she smiled, and she smiled a lot.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Police officers followed and cornered the horse on motorbikes, before it was wrangled by a lasso-carrying cowboy.
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
Luka Doncic, dressed in a black T-shirt and pants, scrolled on his phone, cornered off by a wall of reporters who all faced LeBron James looking for reasons behind a postseason dry spell.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
"They've got us cornered because they tell us: if you don’t accept the repatriation programme, you'll be stuck in a mess here in Congo," said Gabriela, visibly upset.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
When I finally cornered her one rainy afternoon, and we set out the board in the billiards room, she proceeded to show me a game that was a vague variant on draughts.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Ferrari started the season with the best chassis in terms of cornering performance, but their engine has fallen short of those produced by Mercedes and Red Bull.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
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
Even qualifying is no longer the pedal-to-the-metal spectacle of raw speed, cornering skill and courage that separates the great from the merely quick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Soon, Fairbanks was cornering office mates with wild talk about good and evil spirits.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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