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[kawr] / kɔr /


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The program will also feature stories with CBS News correspondents outside of the core group at “60 Minutes,” such as Seth Doane and Matt Gutman.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

“Plans to spin off the core Volkswagen passenger-cars brand and the VW components division are off the table,” union bosses Daniela Cavallo and Christiane Benner said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

For horror fans, It Ends will shake you to your core.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2026

"A core issue is fragmented governance, not a lack of technical capability."

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

My parents move in front of me, and that scares me to my core.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Once the parts are produced, the ceramic cores and wax used to make them are destroyed, Howmet’s Chief Executive John Plant said at an investor meeting earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

They grow about a centimeter or two a year and by sampling cores at the millimeter scale, the team was able to develop windows of monthly temperature records scattered across the past millennium.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

The scientists analyzed the composition of the sediment cores and measured how quickly material from the permafrost accumulated on the ocean floor.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

IBM’s mainframe processors have huge amounts of on-chip memory, yet relatively few very fast computing cores.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Then they climbed back up the steep hill, to hurl apple cores into the woods and go to bed.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

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

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

Put a quart of peeled, cored, and quartered pears into an earthen baking-dish with half a cupful of sugar and a cupful of water.

From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

She joined Neff in pushing for the Thwaites collaboration to include ice coring, but a combination of competing priorities, perpetually bad weather, and difficult logistics stood in the way.

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

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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