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With “Alien” and “Blade Runner” just around the corner, it’s easy to overlook Scott’s astonishingly assured feature debut, which won him the prize for best first film at Cannes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Missile-making startup Castelion closed a more than $1 billion funding round co-led by private-equity giant Carlyle CG 2.13%increase; up pointing triangle Group, reflecting blue-chip firms’ growing interest in a booming corner of the defense industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

‘Spooky season’ is just around the corner: September is typically the worst month for the S&P 500.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

One data centre completed earlier this year was installed in a corner of the Dolomite Mountains, external in Italy.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

A grand piano is in the far corner.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Semiconductor stocks experienced renewed pressure on Wednesday as the artificial-intelligence trade lost some shine and investors poured into other corners of the market.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

The ruling "does not fall within the four corners of the law", Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said in a video statement shared on X by state broadcaster Radio Pakistan.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

The only time she appears to get emotional is during Hampstead - a ballad that deals with her portrayal in the media and the darker corners of the internet.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

No fog lights grace the front lower corners; the molded blanks in the lower grille look like waffle irons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

The Shadow Queen smirked, and when she did, the skin at the corners of her mouth began to peel off.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

The more exposed he is to the laughter, and the more cornered he feels, the more ridiculously he will have to respond—because he can’t admit to an error.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026

D-Wave has cornered the market for annealing quantum systems, which are tailored to optimization problems.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Chris’s eyes were like a cornered rat’s—wild and desperate.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

It’s made of the joy-buzzer energy coming into your palms through the rack-and-pinion steering, the wheel gains heft and braille-like sensitivity as cornering loads and slip angles increase.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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

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

The reduced downforce has lowered cornering speeds and ensured some of the quicker corners, where drivers did not have to slow down before, will be more challenging.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026

Anyway, all day I’ve been trying to think of a way of getting out of it, and now here she is, cornering me before I’ve nailed down an excuse.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina