as in beauty
something very good of its kind
that last race was a real corker!
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Recent Examples of corker
Penned by Aaron Sorkin, this corker of a suspense film stars Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon and more.
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Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2025
The second number of the show was, if not as much of a surprise, equally a corker… and a thematically appropriate choice for the followup choice in the set.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
Based on a script by Richard Price and Alexander Ignon, Ransom is a corker of a paranoid, father’s-worst-nightmare thriller in which Gibson plays Tom, a one-percenter who discovers that his son has been kidnapped.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Anyway, Breville doles out sales sparingly, and this little corker is $50 off for the spring sale.
—Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025
The final scene — a real corker — was filmed at City Hall.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Understatement has its merits, but so too does a bolt of pure whimsy—just ask model Abby Champion (near right) and her corker of a Stefan Cooke hat; stefancooke.co.uk.
—Sean Thomas, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
The climactic shoot-out, which goes on for 25 incredible minutes, is an absolute corker.
—and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corker
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Wilcox, who runs a small health and beauty business, moved to the United States and became a citizen after growing up in communist Czechoslovakia, according to her campaign biography.—
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More is at stake than preserving the singular beauty of the sawgrass prairies of Everglades National Park or cypress swamps of the Big Cypress National Preserve.—
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But as his son’s college dreams were coming into focus, Dominique thought about his own path and upbringing.—
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Most cops have hero dreams, protector fantasies that sustain them through days that are mostly mundane.—
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But this $12-a-year deal is a humdinger from Black Friday that's still active.—
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Keep an eye on the docket with Lively’s own upcoming summary judgment submission sure to be a humdinger of its own too.—
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The only thing that separates this heavy-duty, 100-percent cotton beaut from its Barbour counterparts?—
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Literally anyone who can ride a bike can hoist a beaut by pressing a little button by your throttle and ride it out until the wheels fall off or the battery dies.—
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The storm system was the first since 2006 to rain on Pasadena’s Rose Parade and ended up being a real doozy — toppling a host of daily rainfall records, several of which were set during that previous storm.—
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The latest report to enter the oeuvre is a real doozy.—
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During my early childhood, my brother and I lived in innocence, away from the great world, absorbed by sand, waves and marvels of the ocean.—
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Mercifully, the marvels of modern medicine and technology have greatly compensated for these losses.—
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Just 16 miles from the excellent city of Bozeman, Bridger Bowl has something for everybody—from kids taking their first lessons to the most hardcore rippers out there.—
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Programming Purgatory is a family-friendly mountain and, as such, has a great ski school with offerings to suit rippers ages four to 104.—
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What's more, a new phenomenon is taking shape.—
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There are myriad extraordinary animal phenomena in the natural world, from the running of the salmon to the months-long hibernation of bears.—
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“Corker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corker. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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