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[kawr] / kɔr /


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My first-team then was made up of some really strong characters, but who were also great lads and old-school to the core, in the ways I've been talking about in this column.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The September inflation data, issued earlier Monday, indicated that core inflation—which strips out volatile items like food and energy—decelerated in the month, as did total inflation excluding gasoline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

September’s core consumer price index reading of 2.57% year-over-year reinforces Morgan Stanley’s emphasis on quality.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

However, the hurricane's powerful inner core was still moving close enough to threaten communities along the coast.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

When the control rods are pulled out of the reactor core, the reaction speeds up.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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

Ice cores taken from the slopes of Puncak Jaya preserve a record of climate history.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The humanities and social-science cores will also exclude technology from the classroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Copernicus observations go back to 1940 but other evidence -- such as ice cores, tree rings and coral skeletons -- allow scientists to place today's climate against a much longer historical context.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

He had lost the protection of the twin cores, and only now that it was gone did he realize how much he had been counting upon it.

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

Tippett s cored on a power play for his 21st with 1:37 left in the second but Hischier t allied his 18th early in the third for a 5-2 lead.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

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

Double-ended cutter n is then fed through the hub of the pulley to true up the cored hole.

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

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

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

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

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

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins


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