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Both Foreman and Bennett took off running around the corner onto Crenshaw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Imagine preparing to cross a street when you suddenly notice a car approaching from the corner of your eye.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
A small number of corner shops in the Netherlands also suffered disruption.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Decorated with funky green wallpaper, the office is an inspiring corner of the home.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
A voice calls around the corner, interrupting, “Luce! Honey or ani?”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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He cranks up a voting-themed choral cover of “Golden,” from KPop Demon Hunters, that has attained meme status in lefty corners.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
The elections have sparked hedging in some corners of the market, including cryptocurrencies, AI-related stocks and major indexes such as the S&P 500.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Then a little grin started breaking out at the corners of his mouth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
I grew up in one of the most left-liberal corners of America, surrounded by educated adults who supported the civil rights movement, opposed the Vietnam War, hated Richard Nixon and loved Israel.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
I help her tuck the corners in, just so.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Hieu cornered some Italians and a German named Martin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Police officers followed and cornered the horse on motorbikes, before it was wrangled by a lasso-carrying cowboy.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Harrison thought he had the animal cornered between two cars at one point, but no such luck — it slipped away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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
When I finally cornered her one rainy afternoon, and we set out the board in the billiards room, she proceeded to show me a game that was a vague variant on draughts.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Ferrari started the season with the best chassis in terms of cornering performance, but their engine has fallen short of those produced by Mercedes and Red Bull.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
It’s made of the joy-buzzer energy coming into your palms through the rack-and-pinion steering, the wheel gains heft and braille-like sensitivity as cornering loads and slip angles increase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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
Av’s zoologist brother Murdoch had already come, and he enjoyed cornering people to talk about how cells divide.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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