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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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