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cone

[kohn] / koʊn /
NOUN
circular-shaped object with pointed end
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The 31-year-old Mexican tourist walked out with a cone of vanilla and chocolate swirl soft serve.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Humans are unusual in having three different cone types that together allow a broad range of color vision.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

The cone of silence around the wedding is the only place in which these dueling Swifts can freely coexist.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

The new findings suggest that the cone pattern in the foveola is established through a coordinated sequence of events early in fetal development.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

“You kidnapped the original Duke. Does he have casts on three of his legs? A cone collar from the vet?”

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Residents have resorted to using orange cones to stop Waymos from driving through alleyways or onto the lots.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

They were formed with cones, shipping pallets, chairs, trash bins, or even neighbors inside a traffic circle.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

But nowadays, the formerly sleepy streets are awash with diggers, orange construction cones and out-of-state license plates.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Oborski trapped the vehicles in what he described as a “corral” using traffic cones.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

We got soft-serve cones at Tasti D-Lite and then new ones from the Mr. Softee truck, to see which ones we liked better.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

Visitors to the GoMA can also part with £15 to get their hands on a coned Duke of Wellington tote bag or £20 for a T-shirt.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

The hole covering was unmarked and “not coned off nor identified in any way,” the complaint says.

From Seattle Times Feb. 28, 2023

The ski-slope pre-credit sequence ought to be scooped and coned; and the climactic mine-shaft explosion looks like it cost a lot of money and geology.

From New York Times May 28, 2020

“Right where the hole goes in, it slopes, and it’s flattened out, and it coned back down, and that was where some really loose sediment was, and I could stick my hands into it.”

From Washington Post Sep. 24, 2018

This table is sharply coned, and can be made to work the dough as much or as little as may be required.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

Safe Street Rebel describes what it does as "coning" and some of its videos have gone viral.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2023

Speaking to the Standard, an unnamed Waymo spokesperson called the coning “vandalism” that “encourages unsafe and disrespectful behavior on our roadways.”

From Slate Jul. 11, 2023

“I was born and raised in Southern California. I’m going to help my people out, especially when people are coning to me.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2018

Justin Bieber is a drive-thru jerk: Justin Bieber, prince of pranks, tapes himself "coning" a poor Wendy's employee.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2011

Inside of an hour the young hunters had passed to the extreme end of the lake and were coning down on the other side.

From Guns and Snowshoes Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters by Bonehill, Ralph




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