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In the corner of the room there were household items, food and water and diapers and paper towels.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
Tennis star Taylor Fritz is serving up his Miami condo for $860,000, offering a buyer the chance to score a corner residence with sweeping views—and a tennis court just downstairs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
The groceries eventually arrive, and dinner still requires a trip to the corner store.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
During pregame warmups, Doncic sprinted out of the Lakers tunnel and straight to Hachimura, who was warming up in the corner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Another rifle, left at the corner of an alley, glitters, catching the light.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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But the best returns may now be in less-known or glamorous corners of the $2.5 trillion market rather than in outright team control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
That's because of the switch between having the front and rear wings open in drag-reduction mode on the straights and closing in corners means the cars drop down towards the ground when they brake.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Peer into one of social media’s dark corners: Family estrangement is one of the most complicated situations to navigate for parents and children alike.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
Over the course of four minutes, the robot fumbled with the towel’s floppy and unwieldy shape as it slowly smoothed out the fabric, located the corners and lined up the edges.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Mrs. Apple was likewise wrapped in a toga, although the Swanburne emblem embroidered in the corners of the fabric suggested use as a tablecloth in the recent past.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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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
On June 29, when another tremor cornered Gil even further, teams from El Salvador and Costa Rica entered through a parking lot connected to the area where they believed Gil was.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Vietnam has cornered the market on robusta since emerging from its war in the 1970s.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Luka Doncic, dressed in a black T-shirt and pants, scrolled on his phone, cornered off by a wall of reporters who all faced LeBron James looking for reasons behind a postseason dry spell.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Javi stepped to the side, but when I walked out into the hall, he cornered me against the wall.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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The Multistrada lights up the night with dynamic cornering headlamps, integrated into the upper fairing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 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
Its cornering of an “extraordinary 90 percent of global production” of chemicals and dyes sparked fears of dependency among the Allies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 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
Howard made sport of cornering journalists who had criticized Seabiscuit.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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