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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
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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
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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
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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