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core

[kawr] / kɔr /


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“I think everyone is looking for another democratic realm in the set of options, and so being able to bring that as a Canadian-German company, I think is core to our value proposition,” Gomez said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

“I know we cannot execute people in our imperfect legal system and remain true to our core values, first among them justice and human decency.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

But many of Bollywood's core ingredients -- melodrama, romance and action alongside awe-inspiring landscapes and a long running time of nearly three hours for the English version -- are present.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Some would say say core NHS functions like these are exactly what we pay our taxes for.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

That’s because minerals in unpurified water can attach to the metal surfaces and fuel rods in the reactor core, interfering with the carefully maintained reaction occurring inside.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

She suggests blending pineapple cores into smoothies, but says the tough skins are not something she would recommend.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Researchers reached their conclusions by examining ice cores collected from the Guliya Plateau in 1992 and 2015.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The evidence came from sediment cores deposited during the mid-Holocene, approximately 6,000 years ago, when small changes in Earth's orbit helped create a warmer Arctic with less extensive ice cover.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

As an archaeologist in southern Scandinavia, I studied peat cores for pollen, fallen into nearby wetlands centuries earlier, to understand the nature of the historical plant life and climate of a particular site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“You told him about the twin cores? You said he just had to borrow another wizard’s wand?”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

He has described the prehistoric-looking Dalmatian pelicans, which “have eyes of such tremulous glacial depths—the bluish-gray sclera like an ice sheet being cored by the black iris—that they appear to hold entire worlds inside them.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Engineers hope spherical tokamaks–shaped like a cored apple rather than a doughnut—can be built smaller and more cheaply than conventional tokamaks.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 7, 2023

Lately there has been increasing interest in smaller devices with a more spherical shape, like a cored apple.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 5, 2023

Seattle cored three in the ninth off Matt Bush, who had his third blown save this season, to tie the score 5-5.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2022

A long sleeve, which is provided with a large flange, projects through cored openings in the side of the head.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

Their work included sediment coring, laboratory testing, climate reconstructions, and studies of past plant and animal activity.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026

And the South Koreans were familiar with using helicopters for ice coring.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2024

A mix of tests was used at the site including "coring", which involves the drilling and extraction of cylinders of concrete.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2024

As reported by CNN Business, Chipotle has now launched the "Autocado," a robot "designed to perform the more tedious tasks involved in creating the chain's guacamole, including cutting, coring and peeling avocados."

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2023

Toasting bread and cheese, coring apples, placing chestnuts in the fire to roast.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins


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