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core

[kawr] / kɔr /


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Brous said the company saw strength across all geographies, including an acceleration in its core North America business.

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

"At its core, our plan is about changing Canada's growth model," Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said this week.

From Barron's ● 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

The foreign feeling in her core was demanding she leave; Mama’s body begged her to stay.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

She suggests blending pineapple cores into smoothies, but says the tough skins are not something she would recommend.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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

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

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

From Scientific American ● Jun. 5, 2023

Many he cored turned out to be more than a century old.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2021

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

Four or five rounds are not more than the average of golfers will make an india-rubber cored ball last them, so that the outlay on the weapons is very moderate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

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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