Recent Examples on the WebBut power supply in some of these second-choice markets is already running low, pushing developers ever farther out, in some cases into cornfields, according to JLL, a commercial real estate firm that serves the tech industry.—Evan Halper, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024 Nearly 50 years after three girls were left for dead in an Indiana cornfield, police announced a break in the case.—Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2024 Ontario also boasts an old-fashioned brick and mortar backlot, located in a former cornfield in the town of Pickering, 34 miles northeast of Toronto.—Todd Longwell, Variety, 9 Feb. 2024 The man ended up stopping the car near a cornfield in Greenfield, Indiana, forced the girls out of the car and bound two of them.—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024 Harvested but unplowed cornfields are easy enough to spot and are more likely to keep drawing late-season deer.—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024 Iowa is the leading U.S. producer of ethanol thanks to millions of acres of cornfields.—Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024 Roughly 20 minutes later, the big 10 showed itself on the edge of a nearby cornfield.—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 25 Oct. 2023 His neighbors include cops, a man who loads vending machines and others who mow lawns, fix roofs and tinker with windows at the edge of a cornfield near a park.—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
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