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corner

[kawr-ner] / ˈkɔr nər /






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The most famous corner is Eau Rouge, a high-speed left-right flick into and out of a compression that launches the cars uphill into a left over a crest - technically known as Raidillon.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Hamawy led me through the polished medical half of the office to a room around the corner with a conference table and a messy whiteboard with leftover green-marker notes from the primary.

From Slate Jul. 14, 2026

About the size of a cookie, each array contains eight quartz corner cube prisms mounted inside a dome shaped aluminum frame.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

Receiving a pass from Anthony Gordon in the box, Bellingham took three controlled touches, spun two Norwegian defenders and drilled a low finish into the far corner.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

We used only a corner of the table now, Father, Betsie, and I, but to me the rest of the family was always there.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Even in popular destinations, it’s possible to seek out quieter corners.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Part of this, I think, can be attributed to social media and its relentless invitation to aestheticize even the most mundane corners of domestic life, kitchen cabinets included.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

Chair of the independent panel, which will decide the winner, Hollyoaks writer Sir Phil Redmond said the response to the competition had been "overwhelming" and "quite literally from all four corners of the UK".

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

Some on Wall Street are growing increasingly concerned that leveraged ETFs are becoming more of a force in markets — potentially amplifying volatility in key corners of the stock market, like trendy semiconductor names.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

My vision pulses at the corners from the stress of the weight.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

D-Wave has cornered the market for annealing quantum systems, which are tailored to optimization problems.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

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

From Slate May 30, 2026

Vietnam has cornered the market on robusta since emerging from its war in the 1970s.

From BBC May 28, 2026

“During the pandemic I cornered my grandma to make all of her recipes again so I could write them down,” she recalls.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 4, 2026

Dad cornered fathers as they left their pews.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

F1 cars use so-called 'venturi' underbodies to accelerate the airflow and create an area of low pressure that sucks the car to the ground to increase cornering performance.

From BBC Nov. 27, 2025

Those tactics included secretly cornering slivers of the financial markets and “watering” stock—defrauding investors by issuing shares well above their book value.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 2, 2025

“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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