cork
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The facility plans to continue making other types of screw caps, capsule and Diam cork closures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Fans' anticipation before the game was like a champagne bottle about to pop its cork.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Maybe it’s the way the planet ignores these sports for three years and 50 weeks before comically leaning in like we’re all Ph.D.s in lutzes and double cork 1080s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
The two countries constitute a geographical cork on Central Asia’s westward trade routes and pipelines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The world spun and he was thrown forward, as helpless as a cork in a waterfall.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
Makers of corks, capsules and bottles have been hit because overall U.S. wine volume has continued to decline, McMillan said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
For now, champagne corks ought to be popping in Islamabad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Hollywood stars embraced and champagne corks popped at this year's Oscars nominee lunch, the glamorous pre-show gathering that was canceled amid last year's devastating Los Angeles wildfires.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
But there will not be any champagne corks popping in the Home Office.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
She unscrewed the cap—no corks here—sipped, and handed it to me.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
When the priceless liquid is poured, the group is horrified by the odor: The wine is corked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
PCC has great customer service; I purchased this Bordeaux at its Green Lake branch and was able to return the corked bottle at its Central District branch, no questions asked.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
When I “toured” the loch house, I was inspecting its shelf of corked jugs, wondering where the residents had stashed all their practical kitchen items, when I finally realized that there were no residents.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
Among the artefacts discovered were are a gunpowder barrel, swivel guns, a bottle of corked rum and woodworking tools.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2022
“A guy gets corked off he—” “Corked off?” interrupted Nels.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
A corking Nancy Drew tale set in 1960s Galicia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
“It’s always been part of the game,” he said, “just like hitters have always been corking their bats.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
The warts on their outside are called "corking," as horticulturalist Jessica Walliser said on WNYC.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022
The MI6 building at Vauxhall Cross overlooking the river gives James Bond some exciting Thames moments in his corking speedboat chase at the beginning of The World Is Not Enough.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2020
They were, he said unambiguously, “the finest I ever saw seated in a shell. And I’ve seen some corking boatloads.”
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
