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Fresh from impressing Iraola in New York, Chambers hammered home from inside the box in the seventh minute after Milos Kerkez got a touch on Szoboszlai's corner.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
The 59-year-old zoo, which occupies 133 acres in the northeast corner of Griffith Park, has also struggled to maintain its national accreditation, with federal regulators finding peeling paint and rust in some exhibits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Hold on to July for just a little longer: August is around the corner, but what if it weren’t?
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
For Ikra Altumsek, and many other Turkish tourists, a visa-on-arrival scheme to visit several of Greece's Aegean islands has greatly simplified travel to this corner of the EU, previously off-limits without a hard-to-get Schengen visa.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Down in the far lefthand corner, beneath the bottom shelf, a sliding panel, two feet high and two wide, opened into the secret room.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Police suspect Nancy was taken in her sleep from the same bed she used to demonstrate how to make hospital corners on a “Today” show feature in 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
This is caused by the need to constantly recharge the batteries, which is reducing the challenge of fast corners by turning them into what two-time champion Fernando Alonso has called "charging stations".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
In many corners of the internet, tallow isn’t marketed simply as a moisturizer but as a return to something more primal and distinctly masculine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The appointment of Khan, who is seen by Wall Street and Big Tech as hostile to business, sent a jolt through some of the more rarefied corners of the business community.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
He could sense her smugness as she slithered back to his desk, and he had to bite down on the corners of his mouth to kill his laughter.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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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
We’re frankly confused how Auchincloss cornered himself into this one.
From Slate ● May 30, 2026
Vietnam has cornered the market on robusta since emerging from its war in the 1970s.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Sarah had cornered me once and said, “What you let her talk to you like that for? She can’t get away with it with nobody else.”
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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The all-terrain tires undo some of this good work; the taller sidewalls mean more deflection in sharp cornering, a less crisp steering response, and a bit more tire noise at highway speeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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
Furious, Vanderbilt sought revenge by cornering Erie stock, buying up all available shares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
“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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