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[kawr-ner] / ˈkΙ”r nΙ™r /






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That’s when veteran outfielder Teoscar Hernández chimed in from the corner of the room with one more word to describe the two-time defending World Series champions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

In the eighth, with one out, Will Smith cut out the middle man by doubling into the right-field corner and advancing to third when Milwaukee’s Sal Frelick misplayed the carom off the wall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Let’s toss the belief that it takes an outsider to change a company into the corner office trash can.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The ranch is nestled in a corner of Nebraska that's home to rolling green hills under sweeping Midwestern skies, the landscape dotted with grain silos and feedlots alongside fields and fields of bovines.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

A voice calls around the corner, interrupting, “Luce! Honey or ani?”

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

Over the course of four minutes, the robot fumbled with the towel’s floppy and unwieldy shape as it slowly smoothed out the fabric, located the corners and lined up the edges.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

None of that has stopped Reddit and other corners of the web from celebrating and memeing the issue.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

This is a skillset of someone who is happiest in the darkest corners of government—the swampiest of swamps—a realm of acronyms, white papers, and multihyphenate bureaucracies.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

But he also struck out with runners on the corners in the sixth inning Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The corners of Nyame’s mouth twitch once more as he regards me.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

Vietnam has cornered the market on robusta since emerging from its war in the 1970s.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

Luka Doncic, dressed in a black T-shirt and pants, scrolled on his phone, cornered off by a wall of reporters who all faced LeBron James looking for reasons behind a postseason dry spell.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

He’d been cornered by her earlier that day, and in order to escape her chattering on and on about not leaving her treasure behind, he’d agreed to help.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

Ferrari started the season with the best chassis in terms of cornering performance, but their engine has fallen short of those produced by Mercedes and Red Bull.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

I hate that feeling of overspilled momentum when cornering and braking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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

You were steadily cornering the market in self-pride.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee


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