hard-core

Example Sentences

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Many inside the movement said it should be less confrontational and disruptive but a hard core of activists argued it would be more effective to double down on direct action.

From BBC

Back in the old days, shoppers would find coupons in their Sunday newspaper, and hard core couponers would buy several papers to maximize value.

From Salon

It needed to be "absolutely hard core" about cost reduction, he wrote in a memo first reported by The Information.

From BBC

“That kind of cross-conspiracy craziness costs credibility...not with the hard core but with the subset that is persuadable.”

From Los Angeles Times

“The other guy with him was kind of hard core and didn’t seem serious” about changing his ways, Boyle recalled.

From Los Angeles Times