cornered

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No. But I don’t think I come at other musicians like that — like I’ve cornered the market on the right way to do something.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Many experts said the outage showed how reliant tech is on Amazon's dominance in the cloud computing sector, as a market largely cornered by AWS and Microsoft Azure.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

Hologic has cornered the market for women’s health products and related diagnostic tools.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

Publicly, he put all the pressure on Hamas, a move that eventually cornered its leaders into a humiliating compromise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

“Finny, I—” there was no controlling what I said, the words were instinctive, like the reactions of someone cornered.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles