hard-core

Example Sentences

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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 • Feb. 11, 2025

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

From BBC • May 1, 2024

“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 • Jul. 14, 2023

“There is a hard core of voters on both sides who think this is great.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2023

But the few hundred who stayed were the hard core of the Tang people—the stubbornest, orner- iest individuals, who were getting tired of being pushed around.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep