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cornets

noun

plural of cornet

as in horns

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 cornets Nevertheless, Gadson’s father, Harold, bought him and his brother, Thomas, cornets to play in their school’s drum and bugle corps, Gadson recalled in author Jim Payne’s The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk & Soul. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026 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. — IEEE Spectrum, 24 July 2025

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The couple was involved in transactions that saw American black bear gallbladders and cougar bones being smuggled into Vietnam, as well as black and white rhinoceros horns, lion teeth and a tiger pelt being illegally imported to Oregon.

— Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
With a pair of real horns, one of them plays the bull by gliding toward the fuchsia bullfighting cape.

— Eyder Peralta, NPR, 15 Oct. 2026

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Millions of tubes of toothpaste distributed by a California company have been recalled due to possible health risks.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Millions of tubes of toothpaste distributed across the United States have been recalled due to possible health risks.

— Alexiah Syrai Olsen, Idaho Statesman, 21 Oct. 2026

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