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core

[kawr] / kɔr /


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Other positives for hyperscalers: strong core businesses, leadership possibilities for agentic AI and the ability of these companies to trim costs and lift profits.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

You have asserted your core First Amendment rights to speak, assemble, associate—to bear witness as a democratic check on an autocratic regime.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

"The core systemic problem is the lack of transparency and accountability," said Rahul Easwar, a Hindu activist and grandson of a former chief priest of Kerala state's Sabarimala temple.

From Barron's Jul. 19, 2026

Loyalty programs have become “truly core strategic assets to these airlines,” Mann said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Washington was the core of gravity that prevented the American Revolution from flying off into random orbits, the stable center around which the revolutionary energies formed.

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

To build the new maps, researchers compiled measurements from more than 16,000 soil cores collected around the world.

From Science Daily Jun. 15, 2026

The researchers analyzed sediment cores from China's Songliao Basin that were deposited around 83 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period.

From Science Daily May 27, 2026

Apple puts chips with more processing cores in devices with bigger displays and more storage to create higher-priced models.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

According to Dai, AI data centers typically need about 30 million CPU cores, or the individual processing units inside the CPU, while agentic-AI data centers will require about 120 million CPU cores.

From MarketWatch May 18, 2026

Inside the first bag was common everyday trash—soda bottles, soup cans, potato chip wrappers, apple cores.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

Lately there has been increasing interest in smaller devices with a more spherical shape, like a cored apple.

From Scientific American Jun. 5, 2023

Seattle cored three in the ninth off Matt Bush, who had his third blown save this season, to tie the score 5-5.

From Seattle Times Jun. 5, 2022

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

On 13 August, they returned to the project’s staging area, an alpine hut, to begin retrieving 471 metres of cored ice from the col in one-metre chunks.

From Nature Sep. 3, 2019

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 Jones, Franklin D.

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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