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"Did it sink? Did it find its way into another corner of the reservoir?"
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
One afternoon last spring, he watched as a man was struck while walking toward a 7-Eleven on the corner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
A funky one hangs in the corner, some simpler ones float above the dark-green tufted couch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
This corner of the southwest province of Guizhou produces one in every seven of the instruments sold worldwide.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
He goes over to the corner of the living room and checks himself out in the mirror hanging above the bar cart.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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He also urged parents to pay close attention to their children’s online activity, noting the ease with which teenagers can enter dark corners of the internet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
And even though levels of leverage in certain corners of the market have ebbed from their peak levels seen shortly before July’s artificial-intelligence swoon, risks remain.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
Always looked to be positive and deliveries from corners caused one or two problems in first half.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
The recurring question for the US chipmaker is whether the AI boom will continue to accelerate as the technology takes over more corners of the broader economy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
The corners of her mouth tipped up into a smile.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
The more exposed he is to the laughter, and the more cornered he feels, the more ridiculously he will have to respond—because he can’t admit to an error.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
D-Wave has cornered the market for annealing quantum systems, which are tailored to optimization problems.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
His black hair is covered in mud, and his eyes burn with the panic of a cornered animal as he looks between Faris and me.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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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
Even qualifying is no longer the pedal-to-the-metal spectacle of raw speed, cornering skill and courage that separates the great from the merely quick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Ferrari's strong starts and superior cornering speed puts them in the mix in the early laps, and the new hybrid engine with their "boost" and "overtake" modes leads to switching of positions for a while.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
No surprise, the CX-50 has some handles, with taut body control and keen line-tracing in transient cornering and braking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Hagrid launched himself forward on top of the skrewt that was cornering Harry and Ron and flattened it; a blast of fire shot out of its end, withering the pumpkin plants nearby.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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