traffic cone
noun
: a conical marker used on a road or highway (as for indicating an area under repair)
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The video also shows several of the people placing the fireworks on the street, including one batch being held up by an orange traffic cone, as cars continue to drive over the bridge.
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Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
The footage also shows large, commercial-grade pyrotechnics lined along the road, some propped up in traffic cones, in the moments before being lit.
—Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
The residential street where Good died remains open, but orange traffic cones offer a narrow walkway for those paying their respects, and a small band of volunteers watches over the mound of flowers, artwork and handwritten signs that has amassed between the sidewalk and the street.
—Jack Brook, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
That tranquility was shattered when deputies with the Sheriff's Department had journalists leave the area and blocked off streets with deputies and traffic cones.
—Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 7 Feb. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
The footage also shows large, commercial-grade pyrotechnics lined along the road, some propped up in traffic cones, in the moments before being lit.
—Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
The residential street where Good died remains open, but orange traffic cones offer a narrow walkway for those paying their respects, and a small band of volunteers watches over the mound of flowers, artwork and handwritten signs that has amassed between the sidewalk and the street.
—Jack Brook, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
That tranquility was shattered when deputies with the Sheriff's Department had journalists leave the area and blocked off streets with deputies and traffic cones.
—Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 7 Feb. 2026
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“Traffic cone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traffic%20cone. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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