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core

[kawr] / kɔr /


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The company in August closed the joint-venture deal with EQT’s active core infrastructure fund, which brought in about $1.15 billion in cash that the cold-storage operator used to pay down debt.

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

“Because that’s where we take our core science into society to actually help people with it.”

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

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

She slid the berries in between her lips, still holding her hair, the canes rebounding in quiet arcs when she freed the berry caps from their cores.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

Engineers hope spherical tokamaks–shaped like a cored apple rather than a doughnut—can be built smaller and more cheaply than conventional tokamaks.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 7, 2023

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

Slice peeled and cored tart apples into graham mush prepared according to the recipe previously given, as soon as it begins to boil.

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

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

Toasting bread and cheese, coring apples, placing chestnuts in the fire to roast.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins


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