cone
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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
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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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