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core

[kawr] / kɔr /


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When mediocrity is the core objective of an extremely powerful company like this one, success hinges on turning the once-discerning viewer into a machine cog as mindless as one of Netflix’s baffling originals.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

Uber is cutting more than 3,000 jobs worldwide as part of a major overhaul designed to shrink management layers and refocus spending on its core business.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

The vehicle is of key interest to investors, who now broadly view artificial-intelligence initiatives as a bigger priority for Tesla than its core electric-vehicle business.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

Tea Shop has already rejected the core of her claim.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

The sun’s gravity compresses its core into an area of enormous pressure and temperature.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Once the parts are produced, the ceramic cores and wax used to make them are destroyed, Howmet’s Chief Executive John Plant said at an investor meeting earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

They grow about a centimeter or two a year and by sampling cores at the millimeter scale, the team was able to develop windows of monthly temperature records scattered across the past millennium.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

IBM’s mainframe processors have huge amounts of on-chip memory, yet relatively few very fast computing cores.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

This allows scientists to compare samples from different layers within the same core, as well as samples taken from cores in separate locations.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

Inside the first bag was common everyday trash—soda bottles, soup cans, potato chip wrappers, apple cores.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

Where bad apples threaten to ruin the barrel they are typically cored and turned to applesauce by hour’s end, unless it’s a two-part story or a seasonal arc.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 6, 2021

Crusts.—Cut stale bread in circles, lay half of a peeled and cored apple on each piece.

From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

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

While balancing on the small raft, they'd screw metal rods together to lower a long slender coring tube over 50 feet to the lake bottom.

From Science Daily Oct. 17, 2023

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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