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[kawr] / kɔr /


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AstraZeneca added that the collaboration would cover multiple international projects across the U.S., the Middle East, and Europe spanning its core disease areas—cancer, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases, respiratory and immunology, and rare diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The company did not mention games as part of the core of its service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Announcements over recent months that artificial intelligence models have cracked previously unsolvable problems are shaking to the core top-level mathematicians, who are now asking themselves: where do we come in?

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Wiegman's successful England teams have been built on a core group of players from an outstanding generation - but a few cracks have appeared this year.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Exposure to these artistic forms develops the inner core of a child, introduces new dimensions of possibilities, and shows the brain a new way of functioning and understanding.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

To examine the Shunga-Francevillian event from another perspective, the researchers analyzed drill cores stored at NGU.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Ice cores taken from the slopes of Puncak Jaya preserve a record of climate history.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

He had lost the protection of the twin cores, and only now that it was gone did he realize how much he had been counting upon it.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

In 2020, just before the pandemic hit, Barichivich and Lara cored part of the Alerce Milenario with an increment borer—a T-shaped drill that scientists use to excise narrow cylinders of wood without harming the tree.

From Science Magazine ● May 19, 2022

The apples were to be cut, cored, and strung in the kitchen, the spread was to be in the “settin’ room,” and all the rooms were decorated so gayly that they appeared festive indeed.

From Randy's Summer A Story for Girls by Amy Brooks

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

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

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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