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corn

[kawrn] / kɔrn /


NOUN
cereal
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U.S. farmers may produce less corn on their land than forecast earlier this year, the Department of Agriculture said Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Menu offerings include appetizers such as Dungeness crab cakes and lobster corn dogs, and entrées such as crispy chicken Milanese, honey miso glazed salmon and a signature Skywalker Ranch Wagyu burger.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

I try the pork and corn pot-stickers with XO scallop sauce, plump, garlicky, fast.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

At around six-months-old they are bought by companies that run feedlots – large yards where the animals are fattened on corn and other grains for the final three to six months of their lives.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

We took the side road off Yellow Dog and headed up the hill, past fields tall with corn, aiming toward the farthest side of the ridge.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

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

As for nutrition, 19 candy corns amount to about 140 calories and 28 grams of sugar.

From Washington Times Oct. 24, 2023

Our feet are remarkably high maintenance in the best of times: We have to worry about bunions and blisters, corns and calluses.

From Washington Post Jan. 19, 2022

I asked the counter man if ducks eat dry corns.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

Grab a pineapple bun stuffed with ham and butter, a corned beef egg tart, a sourdough one, even pistachio.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

Dishes she's made range from panackelty, a stew consisting of potatoes, onions and corned beef, to Staffordshire oatcakes, a type of yeasted pancake, and Lancashire hotpot, made with mutton or lamb.

From BBC Apr. 17, 2026

For an article on deli sandwiches, she collected 104 corned beef and pastrami samples in one day to evaluate the meat and sandwich-building techniques.

From Seattle Times Apr. 7, 2023

We use a ton of coconut milk, we eat a lot of lamb and corned beef and wrap dishes in taro leaves.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 5, 2023

"All I want is a corned beef sandwich, not a guided tour."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

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

Treasury was corning to the banks for billions more to finance the budget deficit.

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




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