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Poring over the CPI numbers, many economists now think that the core version of the PCE price index rose by 0.3% last month, a pace many Fed watchers have speculated could trigger a rate hike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The core inflation metric excludes food and energy prices.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

At its core is a structure known as a nanocavity, which traps and concentrates light within an exceptionally tiny space.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

I have my classical musician roots at my core, but my punk, rebellious exterior adds a cherry on top.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Penelope was Swanburne to the core, and that is why, despite the injustice of her situation, not to mention some other pressing and—unusual concerns, she felt obliged to do her best at her new position.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Copernicus observations go back to 1940 but other evidence -- such as ice cores, tree rings and coral skeletons -- allow scientists to place today's climate against a much longer historical context.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

They grow about a centimeter or two a year and by sampling cores at the millimeter scale, the team was able to develop windows of monthly temperature records scattered across the past millennium.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Over that period, the detector recorded around 100 antineutrino candidate events linked to residual radioactivity in the reactor cores and nearby spent-fuel cooling pools.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 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

Cans and bottles lay all over, along with crusts, peelings, cores, scraps, rinds, wrappers — everything you would normally find in a garbage can.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

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

The Astros cored a run off Murfee and four off Tommy Milone and another off Ryan Borucki.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 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

Ordinarily, small holes are cored in castings and it is simply necessary to finish the rough surface to the required diameter.

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

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

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

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