cornered

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In the decade before Ueda arrived in 2023, the BOJ cornered the government bond market to the point where no debt issues traded hands External link on certain days.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

Dusty is played by Josh O’Connor, who lately has cornered the market on sensitive, passive outsiders.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

Many experts said the outage showed how reliant tech is on Amazon's dominance in the cloud computing sector, as a market largely cornered by AWS and Microsoft Azure.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

Publicly, he put all the pressure on Hamas, a move that eventually cornered its leaders into a humiliating compromise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

Most recently, they cornered me after school in the gym and told me I couldn’t leave the basketball court until I made “three three-pointers in a row.”

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle