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Which, in this corner of the MCU, may well be the same thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
She spotted the stray phone in the dim corner of a luggage bin within minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Are you better off, as a country, turning a corner, saying “kumbaya,” looking forward not backward?
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026
Around the same time as the vehicle incident, "a second individual jumped a barricade near the northwest corner of Lafayette Park," the spokesperson said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
And then we saw something else, stacked in the far corner, a pile of old wooden benches.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Other corners of Wall Street are expected to see more-modest increases in bonus checks for this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
She sent powerful winners to all corners to outmuscle her opponent, who is one of the best movers on the WTA Tour, and committed only one unforced error in a dominant second set.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
A hotter-than-expected inflation print and aggressive tones from Fed speakers would push investors further out of technology names and into other corners of the stock market, Hackett told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
He cranks up a voting-themed choral cover of “Golden,” from KPop Demon Hunters, that has attained meme status in lefty corners.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
But I scanned the room from the corners of my eyes, back and forth like a minesweeper, for Claire the Vengeful.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
Thirty-seven seconds after entering one housing estate, we find ourselves cornered.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Hieu cornered some Italians and a German named Martin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Harrison thought he had the animal cornered between two cars at one point, but no such luck — it slipped away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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
I made sloppy moves, I overlooked traps, I let myself be cornered and captured.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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
Furious, Vanderbilt sought revenge by cornering Erie stock, buying up all available shares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
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
Emmett was thinking about cornering James, no doubt.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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