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In rural Modoc County, in California’s remote northeast corner, Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton donned a beige cowboy hat and climbed atop a horse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Let’s toss the belief that it takes an outsider to change a company into the corner office trash can.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
During his suspension in August 2023, Paxton visited St. George, Utah, a small city in the state’s southwest corner.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Microplastics have spread into nearly every corner of the environment.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Ms. Emerson’s perched on the corner of her desk beside me, her face creased with worry.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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But he also struck out with runners on the corners in the sixth inning Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
In the spring, it was far-flung corners of rural America, where one promising new data center turned out to be AI servers humming inside what appeared to be a converted chicken coop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
With fewer options free of AI risks, investors have had to turn to other corners of the stock market to provide some buffer against an AI-related unwinding, and negative beta has increasingly become an option.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Over the last 15 years, EA has found eager followers in American tech and some corners of Wall Street.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
When the wind was up—it didn’t need to be strong, but some wind was necessary—she could catch at the corners and open it, like wings, and feel the breeze lift her off her feet.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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The unharmed horse was eventually cornered by police, before being lassoed.
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
Luka Doncic, dressed in a black T-shirt and pants, scrolled on his phone, cornered off by a wall of reporters who all faced LeBron James looking for reasons behind a postseason dry spell.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
When she cornered me in the hall one morning and started to tell me how sorry she was about Jim, how she just didn’t know how I felt, I looked right through her.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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It’s made of the joy-buzzer energy coming into your palms through the rack-and-pinion steering, the wheel gains heft and braille-like sensitivity as cornering loads and slip angles increase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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
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
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
Av’s zoologist brother Murdoch had already come, and he enjoyed cornering people to talk about how cells divide.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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