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[kawr-ner] / ˈkɔr nər /






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The impoverished country has long been at war in a forgotten corner of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Another earnings season is just around the corner, and more companies than usual have had upbeat expectations, while their executives are also a bit less preoccupied with inflation.

From MarketWatch Sep. 13, 2026

Now the 8,000 people in this remote corner of California have to ask themselves what more they can wring from the land, what more they can take and what more it can yield.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

The VSC ended when Norris was in Turn 21, the corner before the pit entry, on lap 15.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

I take in the waiting room to my right, forcing my eyes over every faded plastic chair, into every corner, but I don’t see them.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

"We are usually in four different corners of the earth, so it's hard to get together," he says, adding that their support since his return to Draco has been "fantastic".

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

The new circuit, known as the 'Madring', is a demanding 5.4-kilometre track with 22 corners, including its headline feature, a 24-percent-banked turn nicknamed "La Monumental".

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

The horrors came from all corners of the continent.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

They appear at the corners of magnetic domain walls separating different spin arrangements, and their defining feature is their extremely limited mobility.

From Science Daily Sep. 7, 2026

We crossed dark side streets, crested bridges, wheeled round invisible corners.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Prime Video has cornered the market on young-adult fiction, catering to a massive audience of women and girls who want to escape into love stories.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Christ was cornered — pay taxes to Rome, or be branded a traitor — and so he turned the trap into a statement about the limits of power.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

We’re frankly confused how Auchincloss cornered himself into this one.

From Slate May 30, 2026

"They've got us cornered because they tell us: if you don’t accept the repatriation programme, you'll be stuck in a mess here in Congo," said Gabriela, visibly upset.

From Barron's Apr. 22, 2026

But he never could have foreseen the way they’d been cornered in the harbor, and he certainly couldn’t have imagined what Nina had done to get them out of it.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

The Multistrada lights up the night with dynamic cornering headlamps, integrated into the upper fairing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

I hate that feeling of overspilled momentum when cornering and braking.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

With ambitions of cornering the electric vehicle market, India is also on the lookout for critical minerals such as lithium -- another resource Australia has in abundance.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

In other words, it is the track where cornering performance - particularly at low and medium-speed - is most important, and engine power least.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

Anyway, all day I’ve been trying to think of a way of getting out of it, and now here she is, cornering me before I’ve nailed down an excuse.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina




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