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cornered

verb

past tense of corner
1
as in monopolized

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2
as in accosted

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cornered
  1. monopolized
  2. accosted
  3. engrossed
  4. confronted
  5. approached
  6. faced
  7. dared
Verb
  • Dishwasher racks are valuable real estate that shouldn’t be monopolized by your cat and his Fancy Feast.
    — John Hodgman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • At times of heightened tensions, the Houthis have used the Bab el-Mandeb as a geopolitical bargaining tool, disrupting the passage of trade in a similar fashion to how Tehran has monopolized the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the Iran war.
    — Tiago Ventura, Time, 16 July 2026
Definition of monopolized
Verb
  • At half-time of the mostly engrossing, controversial Manchester derby on Sunday, Marc Guehi was accosted by a Sky Sports reporter and asked a few questions.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Osama, donning his bulletproof blue press jacket and armed with his camera, is accosted by a woman wailing that 200 of her neighbors are gone.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of accosted
Verb
  • In one inexhaustible untitled image from 1980, the couple sits in elegant dress at a candlelit table engrossed in each other’s company, while the young, shirtless son adjusts the channel on a television perched on the near side of the same table.
    — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • After traveling to Oakland from Colorado, Lori Schott read aloud a diary entry from her daughter, Annalee, who died by suicide at 18 after becoming engrossed with Meta’s apps.
    — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of engrossed
Verb
  • In Job, a breakout Off–Off Broadway work that made it to Broadway, a tech employee confronted her therapist with a gun and demanded to be reinstated at her job, and then the twists ensued from there.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Baron Cohen was aware of the concerns at the time, not least because Walker confronted him at an industry event.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of confronted
Verb
  • As the Houthis approached the Red Sea, the area was defended by several armed formations that were nominally controlled by the Saudis.
    — Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The Ryan Field designers approached the project with a certain sophistication.
    — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of approached
Verb
  • Serbia is formally seeking membership in the European Union, but the effort has stalled under Vucic, who has faced accusations of clamping down on democratic freedoms, including the media.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026
  • No two knee injuries are the same, of course, and Seguin faced an obstacle that Mahomes apparently didn’t have to deal with.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of faced
Verb
  • The liberal Yabloko party, the only registered political entity that dared to publicly criticize the war, was removed from the ballot last month by Russia’s Supreme Court, and only has a few dozen candidates in the single-constituency races.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Everyone then stayed on campus, and dared not explore the surrounding community.
    — Danny Mason, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of dared
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“Cornered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornered. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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