core
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“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
Uber’s third-quarter revenue growth slowed to 10% as revenue from its core mobility unit fell 2% due to driver shortages and high fuel costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
His core, however, held, with white voters without college degrees and white evangelicals remaining firmly Republican.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
They radiate through Earth’s mantle and core, having little effect on Earth’s surface.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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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
Ice cores taken from the slopes of Puncak Jaya preserve a record of climate history.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Tidbit even ate the apple cores and promptly fell asleep on the nearest pile of straw.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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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
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
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 cored hole is first rough bored with cutter n attached to the end of boring-bar m, and guided by the drill support d pivoted to the carriage.
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
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
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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