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An unburned pine cone lies on the floor of the blackened forest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Will he break the cone of silence and tell us what he thinks?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Any tactic which can be judged as disrupting play - including leaving the ball on a cone and dropping the ball for a team-mate - could trigger a countdown.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The cone of silence that’s followed the wedding is the only place in which these dueling Swifts can freely coexist.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

The ice cream truck just passed and we both bought an ice cream cone.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

Researchers discovered shatter cones in numerous rock outcrops.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 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

Traffic cones have been placed around the crater, and AFP reported that waves pounding the sea front can be seen "lapping in the hole and rushing out again under the stanchions that support the home".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Traffic cones are set back from the crater, which appears to be perilously close to swallowing the house's double garage.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The boys were standing on the corner, licking their cones, when a sleek gray Mercedes-Benz pulled up next to them.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

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

Mandrels or arbors are sometimes made adjustable for diameter by forcing a split cone upon a coned plug, examples being given in the following figures, which are extracted from Mechanics.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

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

“True, ours has been a courtship in which the bitter and the sweet have been equally mingled, but now the peace complete is coning love, for King Philip is dead and the war is over.”

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various