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[kawr] / kɔr /


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None are as good as the core cast, though, a genuine ensemble in a very creative, casually hilarious and certainly otherworldly comedy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Let’s be clear: The core PCE index also shows inflation rising — and rising too fast for the Fed’s taste.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

One of them was a recently collected 640-meter-long core from the United Kingdom.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

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

A blazing ball of light appeared in her palm, and she threw it into the core of the rotating rings.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

In this phase, the 18A-P process node is tested across chip cores ahead of general production.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

This allows scientists to compare samples from different layers within the same core, as well as samples taken from cores in separate locations.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

The researchers identified the ancient drying event by studying sediment cores taken from some of K'gari's oldest lakes.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

So they turn to cut-through notches, carved light wells, and strategic wall-offs of interior cores that create space for new residential floors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

He didn’t actually forbid us to peel our apples or waste the cores, but he kept referring to the matter so as to let us know that he had noticed what we were doing.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Engineers hope spherical tokamaks–shaped like a cored apple rather than a doughnut—can be built smaller and more cheaply than conventional tokamaks.

From Science Magazine Sep. 7, 2023

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

The form of drill that is used quite extensively for drilling cored holes in castings is shown in Fig.

From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Jones, Franklin D.

Their work included sediment coring, laboratory testing, climate reconstructions, and studies of past plant and animal activity.

From Science Daily Jun. 11, 2026

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

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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