core
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Rising living costs threaten discretionary spending by Dollar Tree and Dollar General’s core customers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The bank estimates core sales, stripping out gasoline and autos, rose 0.4% on a three-month basis, slightly cooler than August’s 0.6% growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Lately, Skarsgård seems to be doing the same, gravitating toward roles that, at their core, interrogate the impact his looks have on other people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Pivoting to AI can’t save Alibaba from risks to its core business.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
But not bright—instead a black light with a violet and white core.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Known as active galactic nuclei, these bright and powerful galactic cores can launch jets of particles and enormous outbursts that influence conditions across their host galaxies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 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
Ice cores taken from the slopes of Puncak Jaya preserve a record of climate history.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
To investigate the relationship between the faults, Goldfinger and his colleagues studied deep sea sediment cores containing about 3,100 years of geologic history.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Tidbit even ate the apple cores and promptly fell asleep on the nearest pile of straw.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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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
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
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
Four or five rounds are not more than the average of golfers will make an india-rubber cored ball last them, so that the outlay on the weapons is very moderate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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
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
Toasting bread and cheese, coring apples, placing chestnuts in the fire to roast.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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