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core

[kawr] / kɔr /


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The rocket is core to many of SpaceX’s plans for the future, which include putting artificial-intelligence data centers in orbit and allowing the company to enable travel to the moon and Mars.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Venn says it’s clear that at their core people tend to share the same sense of humor.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

You’re going to hear us focus on the core menu first, because that’s where you deliver intrinsic value for the customer.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Viral marketing has been a core part of Raising Cane’s success.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

If you read Madisons speeches against assumption in the House during the spring of 1790, you get the impression that his core objections were economic.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

So scientists anchor the world’s coordinates to far-off stillness: quasars, the luminous cores of galaxies billions of light-years away, observed nightly by radio telescopes across multiple continents and cross-checked with lasers bounced off satellites.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

By studying sediment cores, the team found that large amounts of carbon from land are preserved in the seafloor.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 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

In this phase, the 18A-P process node is tested across chip cores ahead of general production.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Because when the workers processed the pineapple, they discarded the cores in a huge pile behind the factory.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

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

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

Many he cored turned out to be more than a century old.

From Seattle Times Mar. 21, 2021

The form of drill that is used quite extensively for drilling cored holes in castings is shown in Fig.

From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Franklin D. Jones

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

From Science Daily Jun. 11, 2026

It’s comfortable in my hand, sharp and precise without feeling fussy, and it turns the quiet, repetitive work of cooking — chopping onions, coring fruit, slicing protein — into something smoother, even a little satisfying.

From Salon Apr. 21, 2026

Researchers used a special coring drill - a bit like a huge apple-corer - tethered to a research ship, to drill at depths of up to 500m.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2025

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

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

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins




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