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corner

[kawr-ner] / ˈkɔr nər /






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“Wouldn’t it be a horror vision if we had to drink little glasses of Kölsch, or if döner kebab and pizza were on every corner of the festival grounds?”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

Good finish into that far corner as well.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

I petted my bird by tapping my screen while my real life cat glared at me from a corner.

From Slate Sep. 6, 2026

On a cold November morning, designer Isaac Mizrahi gets up, leaves his apartment, and trudges to the corner newsstand to pick up a copy of Women’s Wear Daily.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2026

The life-size plaster model of Phineas's head made by Dr. Bigelow stands on the left corner of the table.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

The blue-lit monotony of every day is replaced by warm amber table lamps and dimly lit corners flanked by books on all sides.

From Salon Sep. 7, 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

Lynch’s affection for the city and its singular luminance emanates from the intimate prints documenting its otherwise overlooked corners.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

Tokenized trading will also support traded companies seeking innovative ways to reach investors, while also easing the movement of assets between different corners of the market and minimizing “isolated pools of liquidity,” the exchange said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

They arrived at the counter, its frosted-glass window taped with a smattering of flyers, some with print faded in the sun, the corners of their paper curling with age.

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

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

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

We’re frankly confused how Auchincloss cornered himself into this one.

From Slate May 30, 2026

After the class, Aimee cornered her mom to ask her who I was.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

The Multistrada lights up the night with dynamic cornering headlamps, integrated into the upper fairing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

In something of an irony, Lotus’s historic approach to cornering and traction management—crossed up, tail out, mustaches ablaze—looks a lot like what the kids call drifting.

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

“I — yes, Professor — but —” Filch looked yearningly up the stairs, right through Harry, who could see that he was very reluctant to forgo the chance of cornering Peeves.

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




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