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"We really wanted to have an iconic part of the circuit – more than 30,000 people around one corner."

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Like nearly everyone I grew up around in this corner of Pennsylvania, Sundays in our house were a congregation in green, and I was the lone holdout in the pew, quietly pulling for New England.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Lupe was sitting in the corner wearing her shades,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

From Abidjan to Dakar and Abuja, mechanics, scrap dealers, motorcycle taxi drivers and street vendors make the most of the tiniest corner to set up their business activity.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Harry was looking back over her shoulder, rounding the far corner of the drive-in hut.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

They appear at the corners of magnetic domain walls separating different spin arrangements, and their defining feature is their extremely limited mobility.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

Buyers have been spotted changing into their new shoes on street corners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Two decades later, the idea that “‘Idiocracy’ was a documentary” has gained cachet in the more self-satisfied corners of the internet.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

In Kanazawa, workers dressed in full-body overalls haul large blocks of ice across the factory floor, before starting on the delicate work of carving perfect spheres, cubes and rectangular blocks with cut corners.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

His lips turn up at the corners and I see the lies that peek out from under them.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

“So we went there. A Vampire cornered us in the Underground, but the Devil’s daughter showed up and...”

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

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

Western security officials fear the Yemeni faction could start staging attacks out of East Africa, effectively cornering shipping from both coastlines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

Hagrid launched himself forward on top of the skrewt that was cornering Harry and Ron and flattened it; a blast of fire shot out of its end, withering the pumpkin plants nearby.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling