as in horn
something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container
cornets of pastry dough that were baked and later filled with cream
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Recent Examples of cornet
While recovering from cancer, Jackson pursued his lifelong dream of designing and measuring the acoustical properties of woodwind instruments, particularly Renaissance-era flutes, crumhorns, and cornets.
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IEEE Spectrum, 24 July 2025
Flanking him, a cornet player and a percussionist bounced to the rhythm.
—Ben Miller Laetitia Vançon, New York Times, 24 July 2025
Hudson joined a family of musicians: his father played flute, drums, cornet and the saxophone, performing regularly in local dance bands, while his mother was a vocalist, who also played the accordion and piano.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2025
In the late-aughts, at the restaurant French Laundry, in Yountville, California, Lena Kwak was tasked with finding a gluten-free alternative to the restaurant's iconic salmon cornets—small, crunchy wafer cones filled with salmon tartare to signal the beginning of the meal.
—Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
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IEEE Spectrum, 24 July 2025
Flanking him, a cornet player and a percussionist bounced to the rhythm.
—Ben Miller Laetitia Vançon, New York Times, 24 July 2025
Hudson joined a family of musicians: his father played flute, drums, cornet and the saxophone, performing regularly in local dance bands, while his mother was a vocalist, who also played the accordion and piano.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2025
In the late-aughts, at the restaurant French Laundry, in Yountville, California, Lena Kwak was tasked with finding a gluten-free alternative to the restaurant's iconic salmon cornets—small, crunchy wafer cones filled with salmon tartare to signal the beginning of the meal.
—Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cornet
Noun
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An elk’s bugle is a singular sound, beginning with the high notes of a brass horn and finishing with a low roar.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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Continuing the sports metaphor, the trio and their backing band treated the stage like a basketball court or soccer pitch, with some additional horns and bassists playing off of each other like a seasoned team.—
Jake Harris
June 9,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 June 2026
Noun
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If the caffeine has already moved further along, doctors may use a laxative or a gastric lavage a procedure that uses a tube to wash out the contents of the stomach.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
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If the caffeine has already moved further along, doctors may use a laxative or a gastric lavage, which washes out the stomach through a tube.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
11 June 2026
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“Cornet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornet. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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