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corner

[kawr-ner] / ˈkɔr nər /






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Eyelid lifts were one of the top five cosmetic surgeries last year; if you hang out in a certain corner of Instagram, you might not be able to escape the term bleph, short for blepharoplasty.

From Slate Sep. 2, 2026

The hotel has no discernible reception area, just a low desk in a corner of the lobby where guests are handed a key before being shown to their accommodations.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

"Did it sink? Did it find its way into another corner of the reservoir?"

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

“This is really a bad spot.” said Reid, who has helped run a Jamaican food pop-up at the busy street corner for five years.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Afterward, she watches me crouching in a stall corner.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Tokenized trading will also support traded companies seeking innovative ways to reach investors, while also easing the movement of assets between different corners of the market and minimizing “isolated pools of liquidity,” the exchange said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

And even though levels of leverage in certain corners of the market have ebbed from their peak levels seen shortly before July’s artificial-intelligence swoon, risks remain.

From MarketWatch Aug. 30, 2026

Dodgers left-hander Jack Dreyer took the mound for the bottom half and, with runners on the corners, gave up a walk-off single to McGonigle.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

The recurring question for the US chipmaker is whether the AI boom will continue to accelerate as the technology takes over more corners of the broader economy.

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

The corners of the room were full of moving boxes.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

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

We’re frankly confused how Auchincloss cornered himself into this one.

From Slate May 30, 2026

Gollum huddled himself together like a cornered spider.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

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

These modes have limited authority over actual acceleration, suspension damping, cornering limits and steering feedback.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

Av’s zoologist brother Murdoch had already come, and he enjoyed cornering people to talk about how cells divide.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson




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