core
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Google’s core business, built upon ranking and indexing the open web, is facing a structural disruption as artificial intelligence changes how users navigate the internet.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
The two finalists are the same as four years ago, and their core messages haven’t changed much.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Bank of America expects AstraZeneca to guide for sales growth in the mid-to-high single-digit percentage range in 2027, with core EPS in the low double-digit range.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
When Sir Jim Ratcliffe became a co-owner of Manchester United in 2024, much of the narrative centred on his desire to rebuild the club around a British core.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
“The monster froze my bones to their very core, and they’ve never properly healed! Usually it’s worse when I’m around the truly stupid.”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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She suggests blending pineapple cores into smoothies, but says the tough skins are not something she would recommend.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The revised timeline also creates new opportunities to investigate the Guliya ice cores in greater detail.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 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
The newly recovered cores arrived at NGU in February and are scheduled to be sampled later this year by an international research team representing 18 countries.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
But already I was halfway around the building and had seen nothing but orange peels and apple cores, discarded playbills and ballad-sheets.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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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
The Astros cored a run off Murfee and four off Tommy Milone and another off Ryan Borucki.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
The two-cycle engine is the simplest because there are no valves in connection with the cylinder, as the gas is introduced into that member and expelled from it through ports cored into the cylinder walls.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
Their work included sediment coring, laboratory testing, climate reconstructions, and studies of past plant and animal activity.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
She joined Neff in pushing for the Thwaites collaboration to include ice coring, but a combination of competing priorities, perpetually bad weather, and difficult logistics stood in the way.
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
Arborists can’t tell how old a tree is without coring into it, but environmentalists said that based on its trunk size, the cedar may have been standing for 200 years.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
Toasting bread and cheese, coring apples, placing chestnuts in the fire to roast.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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