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cone

[kohn] / koʊn /
NOUN
circular-shaped object with pointed end
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For much of the series, $3.49 got you a tape at participating McDonald’s, alongside a small vanilla cone or Diet Coke.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

An unburned pine cone lies on the floor of the blackened forest.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

Will he break the cone of silence and tell us what he thinks?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Any tactic which can be judged as disrupting play - including leaving the ball on a cone and dropping the ball for a team-mate - could trigger a countdown.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

After the thermometer beeps, the nurse flicks the cone into the wastebasket and writes something on my chart.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Large chunks of concrete could be seen scattered around and inside the collapsed area, while orange traffic cones cordoned off the site as workers surveyed the damage.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

Traffic cones are set back from the crater, which appears to be perilously close to swallowing the house's double garage.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

If he doesn’t, markets won’t stop trying to guess what he’s thinking: they’ll just rely on other Fed officials’ commentaries, some random bit of data, the latest version of purple traffic cones.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

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

Fiona persuaded me to get an ice cream with her, and we walked to the end of Bearskin Neck with our cones.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

The body d is provided with an annular ring fitting into the bore of the base, which is coned at q.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

They tell me that coning may be one of the first physical protests against artificial intelligence - and that these kinds of human actions are going to become more and more common.

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 Ralph Bonehill




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