cork
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The facility plans to continue making other types of screw caps, capsule and Diam cork closures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Wristwatches seem “to pause once brought inside, as if the threshold held a cork in the bottle of time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
A cork is when a spin is combined with a flip, resulting in an 'off-axis' direction of travel resembling a corkscrew.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Maybe it’s the way the planet ignores these sports for three years and 50 weeks before comically leaning in like we’re all Ph.D.s in lutzes and double cork 1080s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
He looked for the cork and couldn’t find it.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Pulling out corks at 30,000 feet is part of the job for Franks, who develops wines to serve on flights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Champagne corks popping throughout 23-year-old Fery's remarkable three-set win over ninth seed Flavio Cobolli - including one which the Italian complained put him off his service motion - proved fitting.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Hollywood stars embraced and champagne corks popped at this year's Oscars nominee lunch, the glamorous pre-show gathering that was canceled amid last year's devastating Los Angeles wildfires.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
“We didn’t do it all at the same time until like the third try,” Caruso said of popping the corks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025
“I’m going to sleep where the old man corks off.”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
When the priceless liquid is poured, the group is horrified by the odor: The wine is corked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
There are various types of flips that have unique names that don't spell out exactly what the trick contains - including wildcat, tamedog, backflip, frontflip, rodeo, backside rodeo and corked spin.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
PCC has great customer service; I purchased this Bordeaux at its Green Lake branch and was able to return the corked bottle at its Central District branch, no questions asked.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
A chemical compound in the cork can cause a corked wine to taste musty or moldy, like wet cardboard.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
Wordless, his uncle corked the waterskin, untied his horse, and mounted.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
“It’s always been part of the game,” he said, “just like hitters have always been corking their bats.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
The warts on their outside are called "corking," as horticulturalist Jessica Walliser said on WNYC.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022
The MI6 building at Vauxhall Cross overlooking the river gives James Bond some exciting Thames moments in his corking speedboat chase at the beginning of The World Is Not Enough.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2020
There was corking the bat, spitballs, grease balls, Vaseline balls, baseball tampering, steroids, gambling and more that don’t come to mind right now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2020
They were, he said unambiguously, “the finest I ever saw seated in a shell. And I’ve seen some corking boatloads.”
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
