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Meta doesn't deny that some users, including teens, have negative experiences on its two core apps, but the company maintains it created features to reduce those risks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
“In Walked Bud” emerges from a series of ostinatos, with a nearly dreamy focus on its pentatonic core.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
They tell clients in a note that NAB’s large relative exposure to business banking remains core to their thesis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Whereas surfing is beneficial for building core strength and balance, yoga is helpful for mobility and proprioception, for example.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Storm pulled from somewhere within himself, from some primitive core so strong that he could not not pull, even if he wanted to.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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So scientists anchor the world’s coordinates to far-off stillness: quasars, the luminous cores of galaxies billions of light-years away, observed nightly by radio telescopes across multiple continents and cross-checked with lasers bounced off satellites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
To investigate, the researchers collected sediment cores from several locations off the coast of Herschel Island.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
IBM’s mainframe processors have huge amounts of on-chip memory, yet relatively few very fast computing cores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
In this phase, the 18A-P process node is tested across chip cores ahead of general production.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
He didn’t actually forbid us to peel our apples or waste the cores, but he kept referring to the matter so as to let us know that he had noticed what we were doing.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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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
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
They studied, cored and examined the rings of a portion of those trees and learned they all had at least one thing in common: They used water more efficiently than their deceased neighbors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2019
Fill a baking-dish with peeled and cored apples, pour the sago over them, cover and bake until the apples are tender.
From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed
Their work included sediment coring, laboratory testing, climate reconstructions, and studies of past plant and animal activity.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
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
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
And the South Koreans were familiar with using helicopters for ice coring.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2024
Toasting bread and cheese, coring apples, placing chestnuts in the fire to roast.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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