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corner

[kawr-ner] / ˈkɔr nər /






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Fortunately, several key data points suggest the market might finally be turning a corner.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

And they proposed plans for revitalizing the corner of Fifth Avenue and Broadway downtown, including renovating two existing buildings and developing three new ones for apartments, commercial and office space.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Is a time machine just around the corner?

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

Then, on the way home, I stopped at the corner store and spent the rest of my cash on a frozen pizza.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

I joined her in front of a three-sided mirror in the corner beside the dressing rooms.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

"For some reason what she does with switching directions and accepting pace and pinning people in corners, she is a name nobody wants to see early in a draw as a top player."

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

Police suspect Nancy was taken in her sleep from the same bed she used to demonstrate how to make hospital corners on a “Today” show feature in 2013.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

In many corners of the internet, tallow isn’t marketed simply as a moisturizer but as a return to something more primal and distinctly masculine.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

All the drivers were battling with a Hungaroring track surface that was breaking up, especially in the final two corners, where Norris said it was especially difficult to judge the grip level.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

There were only the sounds of the café—people talking in other corners, beans grinding, coffee pouring.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

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

The more exposed he is to the laughter, and the more cornered he feels, the more ridiculously he will have to respond—because he can’t admit to an error.

From Slate Jun. 27, 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

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

In other words, it is the track where cornering performance - particularly at low and medium-speed - is most important, and engine power least.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

These modes have limited authority over actual acceleration, suspension damping, cornering limits and steering feedback.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

Tesla is one of several companies pushing the frontiers of robotics in the hopes of cornering a nascent market.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 3, 2026

Soon, Fairbanks was cornering office mates with wild talk about good and evil spirits.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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