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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
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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
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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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