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Guyana, a small English-speaking country at the northeast corner of South America, is locked in a territorial dispute with neighboring Venezuela over the oil-rich Essequibo region.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
You can also use a resealable plastic baggie with the corner snipped as a makeshift piping bag.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Imagine a small fire breaking out in one corner of your kitchen.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
A source in the Ministry of Justice told the BBC: "We're gutted he's going but the new person is going to have their work cut out to get their head round what's round the corner."
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
He leapt from bed and peered with his one good eye around the corner.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Instead, money is rotating out of the most crowded corners of the market and into sectors including healthcare, financials and select megacap tech companies.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
As a teenager I started to sing on street corners and I noticed that my voice was naturally potent — it could prevail over the traffic and the street noises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Cut the pastry into roughly nine 3-inch squares and tuck each one into a prepared muffin tin, leaving the corners to rise jauntily above the cups.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
He said hard-pressed suppliers were cutting corners on quality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
A little bit of you knew what I meant so please don’t try my patience in the corners of her lips.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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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
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
D-Wave has cornered the market for annealing quantum systems, which are tailored to optimization problems.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
Vietnam has cornered the market on robusta since emerging from its war in the 1970s.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Mr. Kellerman tries to put his hands on my shoulders…and my inner cornered badger lashes out.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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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
Its cornering of an “extraordinary 90 percent of global production” of chemicals and dyes sparked fears of dependency among the Allies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Even qualifying is no longer the pedal-to-the-metal spectacle of raw speed, cornering skill and courage that separates the great from the merely quick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Ferrari's strong starts and superior cornering speed puts them in the mix in the early laps, and the new hybrid engine with their "boost" and "overtake" modes leads to switching of positions for a while.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
“I see what you’re doing,” she’d accused Sarai one night, cornering her in the garden.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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