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After each name read, Hanger struck a singing bowl, the vibrations sounding out in the corner where they stood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Maybe artificial superintelligence is just around the corner after all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Near one corner of the site, volunteers distribute meals.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The dominant biases of scholarship—Western, Christian, English—could be challenged from every corner of the globe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“We were throwing pebbles at her window in the middle of one of her lessons. Everyone got away but me. After she popped me, she made me stand in the corner and called my parents.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Steel beams holding up the skyscraper are exposed in various corners of residential units - an homage to what made the original building so innovative.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
A correction releases pressure from the market’s most speculative corners.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Sentinels stand on the plot’s four corners: kousa dogwood, favored for its red accents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Gently press one pastry square into each prepared muffin cup, leaving the pointed corners extending above the rim.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
At least two corners of the barn needed jacking up.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
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
A reporter from Newsweek cornered Ellsberg, telling him he was going to be on the cover of the upcoming issue.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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
Furious, Vanderbilt sought revenge by cornering Erie stock, buying up all available shares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
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
“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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