corn
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The corn and soybean farmer watched as prices fell from $7 a bushel for corn in early 2022 to just $4.29 three years later.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Ukraine, which is a major exporter of corn, wheat, colza, sunflower seeds and vegetable oil, submitted its EU membership bid days after Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
I enjoy corn, on or off the cob.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
White wine vinegar — or even plain distilled white vinegar — is excellent with potatoes, creamy chicken soups and corn chowders.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Father takes another bite of buttered corn bread and turkey.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
And that is how a quack who treats the tender corns on pedicured toes suddenly becomes a world-renowned corn doctor in a show that seemingly never met a pun it didn’t like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
The emperor wore his hat with the corns parallel to shoulders - known as "en bataille" - whereas most of his officers wore their hats perpendicular to the shoulders.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2023
Calluses and corns are thickened areas of skin that form on toes or the soles of feet as a result of pressure, often from poorly fitting shoes.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2022
The pills often cause his joints to become stiff and prompt the development of corns, a type of callus made of dead skin - which a doctor in Bismarck freezes off.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 29, 2020
I got to get corns and a bowl of water.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
Shelton isn’t a corned beef sandwich at an all-night diner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Danny's Jimmy Nardellos and harissa relish with labneh and mint sounded amazing, and I got a kick out of the notion of going from a Chateaubriand to bologna and canned corned beef.
From Salon ● May 29, 2024
It is a far cry from the infamous tour to India in 1993, when the England squad survived on tinned corned beef and naan bread.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2024
“We would do corned beef tacos over there,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023
He pulled one of them apart and said, “She always forgets I don’t like corned beef.”
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
Corned beef, on the other hand, is salt cured — hence the corning process.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2022
Hybrid striped bass are fair with spinners, and highly shaky rattle traps corning bait in shallow water.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 21, 2020
You need only start by corning your own beef.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2017
Over the hot mike I warned Brett: "There's a lead slug corning over your left shoulder."
From Time Magazine Archive
She could feel the power of the great creature corning off him like waves of heat “I must work till sunset,” he said.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
