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In the eighth, with one out, Will Smith cut out the middle man by doubling into the right-field corner and advancing to third when Milwaukee’s Sal Frelick misplayed the carom off the wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Don’t forget: Open enrollment season is right around the corner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
“There’s a line around the corner every day,” he joked, but not because of the demand; it’s because of the slow service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Apple hopes to turn a corner with the new Siri AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Another rifle, left at the corner of an alley, glitters, catching the light.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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None of that has stopped Reddit and other corners of the web from celebrating and memeing the issue.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
This is a skillset of someone who is happiest in the darkest corners of government—the swampiest of swamps—a realm of acronyms, white papers, and multihyphenate bureaucracies.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
“Price pressure appeared to be showing up in most corners of the consumption basket at once.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
But he also struck out with runners on the corners in the sixth inning Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Theo hears it, too, and I think that’s why the smile he puts on quivers a bit at the corners.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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
Created in 2017, Binance has cornered much of the crypto-trading market, turning its co-founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao into a billionaire.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
His face was flushed, his eyes wide, like a cornered bunny.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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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
Ferrari's strong starts and superior cornering speed puts them in the mix in the early laps, and the new hybrid engine with their "boost" and "overtake" modes leads to switching of positions for a while.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
“I see what you’re doing,” she’d accused Sarai one night, cornering her in the garden.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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