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[kawr] / kɔr /


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Rising living costs threaten discretionary spending by Dollar Tree and Dollar General’s core customers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The bank estimates core sales, stripping out gasoline and autos, rose 0.4% on a three-month basis, slightly cooler than August’s 0.6% growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Lately, Skarsgård seems to be doing the same, gravitating toward roles that, at their core, interrogate the impact his looks have on other people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Pivoting to AI can’t save Alibaba from risks to its core business.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

But not bright—instead a black light with a violet and white core.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Known as active galactic nuclei, these bright and powerful galactic cores can launch jets of particles and enormous outbursts that influence conditions across their host galaxies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

To investigate the relationship between the faults, Goldfinger and his colleagues studied deep sea sediment cores containing about 3,100 years of geologic history.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Tidbit even ate the apple cores and promptly fell asleep on the nearest pile of straw.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

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

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

Four or five rounds are not more than the average of golfers will make an india-rubber cored ball last them, so that the outlay on the weapons is very moderate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

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

From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026

It’s comfortable in my hand, sharp and precise without feeling fussy, and it turns the quiet, repetitive work of cooking — chopping onions, coring fruit, slicing protein — into something smoother, even a little satisfying.

From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2026

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

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

Toasting bread and cheese, coring apples, placing chestnuts in the fire to roast.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins


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