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[kawr-ner] / ˈkɔr nər /






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During that time, people from every corner of the world online seemed to take every opportunity to scrutinize every contour of her frail frame.

From Salon Aug. 13, 2026

I felt transported to someone’s middle school bedroom while standing on the corner of Eagle Rock Boulevard and Yosemite.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

That one guy who lives ’round the corner who has three pet ferrets and wears flip-flops all year long.

From Slate Aug. 12, 2026

A WhatsApp chat which advertises stock in corner shops - including some offering delivery - has attracted thousands of followers in a matter of days.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Adventure and anguish, horror and heaven were just around the corner, and we did not know.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

With runners on the corners and one out, he gave up the only run of his start, on a sacrifice fly by Salvador Perez.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

What was once tucked into corners of the internet is now visible just beneath the sheen of any social media algorithm.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

“Under intense pressure to go fast and beat the rest of your competition, it’s inevitable that companies will cut corners, and what we’re seeing is the result of cutting corners here,” Yoon said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

Other corners of the produce aisle are suffering, too.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Droplets gathered at the corners of his mouth, and some ran down his chin onto the towel, but most of it made it into the baby skunk.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

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

On June 29, when another tremor cornered Gil even further, teams from El Salvador and Costa Rica entered through a parking lot connected to the area where they believed Gil was.

From Barron's Jul. 7, 2026

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

From Slate May 30, 2026

“How did you get away from the skeletons in the generator room, anyway? You said they cornered you.”

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

In something of an irony, Lotus’s historic approach to cornering and traction management—crossed up, tail out, mustaches ablaze—looks a lot like what the kids call drifting.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 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

Its cornering of an “extraordinary 90 percent of global production” of chemicals and dyes sparked fears of dependency among the Allies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

The cars will have active aerodynamics - front and rear wings will open on the straights to reduce drag and increase straightline speed and click back into place for maximum cornering performance.

From BBC Dec. 17, 2025

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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