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corner

[kawr-ner] / ˈkɔr nər /






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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

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

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

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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