core
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The central bank expects headline and core inflation to edge higher in 2027 due to geopolitical tensions, elevated commodity prices and adverse weather, but both are expected to remain contained.
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
Some would say say core NHS functions like these are exactly what we pay our taxes for.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
His core, however, held, with white voters without college degrees and white evangelicals remaining firmly Republican.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
When Farmer was being serious, however, the core of his being was exposed and he wanted you to pay close attention.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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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
Researchers reached their conclusions by examining ice cores collected from the Guliya Plateau in 1992 and 2015.
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
Some of these cores at the Northern Territory Geological Survey are mudstone – a type of sedimentary rock formed from hardened seafloor mud.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 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 tools at N and O are for boring or finishing drilled or cored holes.
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
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
Han wanted to expand KOPRI’s ice coring efforts south from the country’s Jang Bogo Station along the same section of coastline Neff targeted.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 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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