core
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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 Technologies’ revenue growth slowed further in the latest quarter on weakness in its core ride-hailing business.
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
The beginning of all true wisdom concerning the Farewell Address is that Washington’s core insights were firmly grounded in the lessons he had learned as America’s premier military and civilian leader during the revolutionary era.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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She suggests blending pineapple cores into smoothies, but says the tough skins are not something she would recommend.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The evidence came from sediment cores deposited during the mid-Holocene, approximately 6,000 years ago, when small changes in Earth's orbit helped create a warmer Arctic with less extensive ice cover.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 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
The newly recovered cores arrived at NGU in February and are scheduled to be sampled later this year by an international research team representing 18 countries.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
They were pumping thousands of tons of seawater a day into reactors 1, 2, and 3, where it flowed around the melted cores and pooled in a radioactive mess in the buildings’ basements.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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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
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
Lately there has been increasing interest in smaller devices with a more spherical shape, like a cored apple.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 5, 2023
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
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
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
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
A mix of tests was used at the site including "coring", which involves the drilling and extraction of cylinders of concrete.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 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
Toasting bread and cheese, coring apples, placing chestnuts in the fire to roast.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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