cornered

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“During the pandemic I cornered my grandma to make all of her recipes again so I could write them down,” she recalls.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

“Blocking the strait isn’t in anyone’s interest, including Iran’s. But if they feel that they’re cornered, they’ll do it. And they have the logistics to do it,” said Bader Al-Saif, an academic at Kuwait University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

In the decade before Ueda arrived in 2023, the BOJ cornered the government bond market to the point where no debt issues traded hands External link on certain days.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

Nintendo has cornered the market with the Switch - one of the best-selling consoles in history - and its Switch 2 has only improved what made the original great.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

Ferrets had cornered a band of shrews and were threatening to massacre them when a column of otters sprang to the rescue.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques