cornered
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A leadership that feels cornered may escalate rather than accommodate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Police officers followed and cornered the horse on motorbikes, before it was wrangled by a lasso-carrying cowboy.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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
Created in 2017, Binance has cornered much of the crypto-trading market, turning its co-founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao into a billionaire.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Maybe I was starting to realize that we were cornered, and Samir had gotten lucky one too many times.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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