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corn

[kawrn] / kɔrn /


NOUN
cereal
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Ukraine, which is a major exporter of corn, wheat, colza, sunflower seeds and vegetable oil, submitted its EU membership bid days after Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

I enjoy corn, on or off the cob.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

White wine vinegar — or even plain distilled white vinegar — is excellent with potatoes, creamy chicken soups and corn chowders.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

“The hard thing is this: We are making as much on things like corn, rice, wheat that we did in the 1970s,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Jason poured the curdled blue corn into a bowl set aside for their two backyard dogs.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

And that is how a quack who treats the tender corns on pedicured toes suddenly becomes a world-renowned corn doctor in a show that seemingly never met a pun it didn’t like.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

The emperor wore his hat with the corns parallel to shoulders - known as "en bataille" - whereas most of his officers wore their hats perpendicular to the shoulders.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2023

Calluses are usually painless, while corns tend to be painful or tender — and are sometimes accompanied by a fluid-filled sac underneath.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2022

The pills often cause his joints to become stiff and prompt the development of corns, a type of callus made of dead skin - which a doctor in Bismarck freezes off.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 29, 2020

“And I need some dry corns. Ducks like dry corns, right?”

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

The No. 54 is a pastrami and corned beef combo sandwich, dressed in the style of the No. 19, with Swiss cheese, coleslaw and Russian dressing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Shelton isn’t a corned beef sandwich at an all-night diner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Dishes she's made range from panackelty, a stew consisting of potatoes, onions and corned beef, to Staffordshire oatcakes, a type of yeasted pancake, and Lancashire hotpot, made with mutton or lamb.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

Danny's Jimmy Nardellos and harissa relish with labneh and mint sounded amazing, and I got a kick out of the notion of going from a Chateaubriand to bologna and canned corned beef.

From Salon ● May 29, 2024

“Good question,” Mr. McCracken mutters to his corned beef, but with a tone that tells me he’s talking to his wife.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Corned beef, on the other hand, is salt cured — hence the corning process.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2022

Hybrid striped bass are fair with spinners, and highly shaky rattle traps corning bait in shallow water.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 21, 2020

You need only start by corning your own beef.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2017

One reason: new ships corning into service are twice as big and twice as fast as those they replace and need far fewer crew members.

From Time Magazine Archive

She could feel the power of the great creature corning off him like waves of heat “I must work till sunset,” he said.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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