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[kawr] / kɔr /


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About 10 years after first reading about Manson, she made a discovery that chilled her to her core: She was not only related to Manson — she was his granddaughter.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Precisely because food and energy prices can be very volatile, the Bank of England also considers other economic measures such as "core inflation", which excludes these costs.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

"But we preserve the core of the filmmaking process, which is the relationship between the actor, the director and the camera. These tools do not replace that."

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

Non-tradable inflation eased to 3.4% year over year, and core measures excluding food and energy held at 2.5%, “showing little sign that the fuel shock is bleeding into other prices,” Nguyen said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

The sun’s gravity compresses its core into an area of enormous pressure and temperature.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Once their cores become hot and dense enough, hydrogen fusion will ignite, transforming them into fully fledged stars.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

To build the new maps, researchers compiled measurements from more than 16,000 soil cores collected around the world.

From Science Daily Jun. 15, 2026

For example, A18 Pro chips with 6 GPU cores originally appeared in 2024 in the iPhone 16 Pro models.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

According to Dai, AI data centers typically need about 30 million CPU cores, or the individual processing units inside the CPU, while agentic-AI data centers will require about 120 million CPU cores.

From MarketWatch May 18, 2026

But already I was halfway around the building and had seen nothing but orange peels and apple cores, discarded playbills and ballad-sheets.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Lately there has been increasing interest in smaller devices with a more spherical shape, like a cored apple.

From Scientific American Jun. 5, 2023

Seattle cored three in the ninth off Matt Bush, who had his third blown save this season, to tie the score 5-5.

From Seattle Times Jun. 5, 2022

They studied, cored and examined the rings of a portion of those trees and learned they all had at least one thing in common: They used water more efficiently than their deceased neighbors.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 18, 2019

Scientists extracted 471 metres of cored ice from Mount Huascarán.Credit:

From Nature Sep. 3, 2019

Arrange evenly in a buttered dish six apples which have been pared and cored.

From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary

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

As reported by CNN Business, Chipotle has now launched the "Autocado," a robot "designed to perform the more tedious tasks involved in creating the chain's guacamole, including cutting, coring and peeling avocados."

From Salon Jul. 14, 2023

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

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins




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