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core

[kawr] / kɔr /


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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

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

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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