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In recent years, private credit has ballooned from an opaque corner of the financial world into a multitrillion-dollar business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
I sat in exactly the corner of the room that sounds the best for my damaged hearing and thoroughly enjoyed the sets.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
With that corner of the movie business increasingly squeezed, he calls a film like “Pickpocket,” shot in just 25 days, “kind of a little miracle.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Spurs needed a bit of quality in the final third and we were unsure who would score for them, and Maddison puts it in the top corner.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
In the light of the street lamps, the sick-call line stretched to the edge of the building and out of sight around the corner.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Last week the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper accused the firm of aggressively cutting corners on hiring, resulting in a shortage of experienced staff capable of managing the issues which arose.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Over the course of four minutes, the robot fumbled with the towel’s floppy and unwieldy shape as it slowly smoothed out the fabric, located the corners and lined up the edges.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
“AI, especially for artists, is so charged. And so what does it look like to let someone into your space, and into those little corners of your mind?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
This is a skillset of someone who is happiest in the darkest corners of government—the swampiest of swamps—a realm of acronyms, white papers, and multihyphenate bureaucracies.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
"Ha ha," they both said, and turned the corners of their mouths up very slightly.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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Police officers followed and cornered the horse on motorbikes, before it was wrangled by a lasso-carrying cowboy.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
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
D-Wave Quantum: The company has cornered the market for “annealing quantum,” an approach tailored to optimization tasks like logistics and data sampling.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Later, my mother cornered me in my room.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
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In 2018, he said an optional SpaceX package for the car would include 10 small rocket thrusters that will improve acceleration, braking and cornering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Ferrari started the season with the best chassis in terms of cornering performance, but their engine has fallen short of those produced by Mercedes and Red Bull.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Multistrada lights up the night with dynamic cornering headlamps, integrated into the upper fairing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
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
“I — yes, Professor — but —” Filch looked yearningly up the stairs, right through Harry, who could see that he was very reluctant to forgo the chance of cornering Peeves.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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