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cornered

adjective as in under attack

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Police had seized a cache of illegal weapons from Ryan Twyman’s home weeks before deputies cornered him in a car in Willowbrook, authorities said.

Before Thursday's announcement, the IDF believed Sinwar was cornered below ground, hiding in tunnels somewhere beneath Gaza with his bodyguards, communicating with very few people for fear that his signal will be tracked and located.

From BBC

“I was cooking at the stove in my apartment when I heard the shots,” said Waldina Quintero, a house cleaner whose apartment complex in the Tres Ríos district became a battle zone on Sept. 21, when police cornered suspects there.

In that one, a judge in the District of Columbia found that the company had cornered internet searches in part by making tens of billions of dollars in payments each year to companies such as Apple to lock in Google as the default search engine on iPhones and other devices.

Google's new features come as it faces growing challengers in the search space, where it is estimated to have cornered more than 90% of the market globally.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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