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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
Spencer Starkey, an executive at cyber-security firm SonicWall, told the BBC the incident made it clear organisations needed to "step up" their own defences and "treat cyber resilience as a core operational priority".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
"But we preserve the core of the filmmaking process, which is the relationship between the actor, the director and the camera. These tools do not replace that."
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
India’s slower trajectory owes at least as much to bureaucratic drag, corruption and the absence of sustained central planning around core technologies as to reservations, as India’s quotas are called.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
It violated the core of virtue and disinterestedness presumed essential for anyone properly equipped to oversee public affairs.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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
Once their cores become hot and dense enough, hydrogen fusion will ignite, transforming them into fully fledged stars.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Massive stars produce light and heat through nuclear fusion, a process that releases enormous amounts of energy from their cores.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
Yet some of the chips only had 5 functioning GPU cores; these ones were put in a separate bin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
“You told him about the twin cores? You said he just had to borrow another wizard’s wand?”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Tippett s cored on a power play for his 21st with 1:37 left in the second but Hischier t allied his 18th early in the third for a 5-2 lead.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
Lately there has been increasing interest in smaller devices with a more spherical shape, like a cored apple.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 5, 2023
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
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
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
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
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
Toasting bread and cheese, coring apples, placing chestnuts in the fire to roast.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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