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cone

[kohn] / koʊn /
NOUN
circular-shaped object with pointed end
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In the tourist traps of the 5th and 7th, it has been turned into an oversize ice-cream cone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

By adding inland hurricane and tropical storm watches and warnings to the traditional forecast cone, the updated graphic provides a more complete picture of where dangerous conditions could develop.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

In the post, Wouter was pictured wearing a dog cone, which is used to prevent pets from licking, chewing or scratching surgical sites or wounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

I swept the cone of light around, looking for anything remotely creepy, relaxing a bit each time something strange became familiar.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

Orange traffic cones have been laid out alongside items left on the road, he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Researchers discovered shatter cones in numerous rock outcrops.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Mixue has flooded Chinese cities with 45-cent soft-serve cones and has more stores than McDonald’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

The parking spaces in front of the place are all taken, but there’s a spot saved with orange construction cones and blue crepe paper.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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

Forensic teams remained at the scene on Sunday, and one lane of the eastbound carriageway was coned off.

From BBC ● May 24, 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

It consists of a steel shaft coned at both ends running between two countersunk bearings, one of which is adjustable.

From Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 by Marcus J. Martin

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

"I was just coning to look for you, Ruby dear," said Aunt Emma, as her little niece opened the door.

From Ruby at School by Minnie E. Paull


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