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as in dilemma
a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape
the writers have gotten themselves into a corner on that TV show
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as in intersection
a place where roads meet
we'll meet at the corner tomorrow
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as in milestone
a point in a chain of events at which an important change (as in one's fortunes) occurs
the president believes that we have turned a corner in the war on drugs
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as in to front
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Recent Examples of corner
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2026
The air sharpens, old arguments resurface, and the color navy blue seems to deepen on storefronts and street corners.
—Tom Barnas, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2025
In an interview with WWD, the 38-year-old describes how this new era, which includes e-commerce expansion across the Middle East, is poised to corner untapped potential markets like Saudi Arabia.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
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The rooms Guest rooms and suites have been nearly completely redone, corner to corner, and brought into a modern design vernacular.
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This design eliminates the common edge softness found in typical panoramic imagery, ensuring consistent sharpness from center to corner and delivering a solid foundation for high-resolution output.
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Readers send Miss Manners not only their table and party questions, but those involving the more complicated aspects of life - romance, work, family relationships, child-rearing, death - as well as philosophical and moral dilemmas.—
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Rodríguez’s dilemma is compounded by the collapse of traditional military command.—
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Three people were killed and two others were hospitalized after two vehicles collided Saturday afternoon at an intersection on the American River Parkway near North Sacramento.—
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The neighborhood is near the intersection of Oakdale Road and Pleasant Grove Road in northwest Charlotte.—
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Most recently, Damon added another major milestone by winning the 2025 USA Boxing National Championships and earning a spot on Team USA's national youth roster.—
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The testing milestone marks a key step toward launching the robotaxi service in the San Francisco Bay Area later in 2026.—
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Try not to hog the spot for too long, and let others charge their devices, too.—
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Beal is an absolute sieve on defense and tends to hog the ball.—
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Alejandra Espinoza and Alan Tacher are the main hosts of the show, who will front the galas every night, and they will be joined by a trio of show analysts who will give their takes on all the drama unfolding on TV.—
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The former daytime show personality recently gave a New Year's Day address, telling viewers to hold him and the legendary CBS program (previously fronted by Walter Cronkite, Katie Couric, and more) to high journalism standards.—
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UConn fan Bryan Penfield challenged fans to drink the pickle juice-electrolyte drink and make a donation to the Husky Ticket Project.—
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Its love interest is a pickle salesman—utterly charming!—
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When powered by concentrated sunlight via a triple-junction solar cell, the device produced hydrogen at a record rate of 519 micromoles per hour per square centimeter.—
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The wet weather, combined with an earlier storm over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, was also responsible for the shuttering of all lanes on a 27-mile stretch of the 101 Freeway extending from the junction of SR1 and Highway 1 to Winchester Canyon Road in Goleta due to heavy flooding.—
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The principal cast and crew took the stage at the Globes in the climax of the night to receive the award for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy.—
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Tonight’s penultimate episode of season two feels like an anti-climax — not just a letdown generally, but the diametric opposite of a climax.—
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“Corner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corner. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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