hard-core

Example Sentences

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Back in the old days, shoppers would find coupons in their Sunday newspaper, and hard core couponers would buy several papers to maximize value.

From Salon • Feb. 11, 2025

It needed to be "absolutely hard core" about cost reduction, he wrote in a memo first reported by The Information.

From BBC • May 1, 2024

“That kind of cross-conspiracy craziness costs credibility...not with the hard core but with the subset that is persuadable.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2023

And I was so hard core back then when I first started auditioning that I just kind of tucked away into a corner.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022

But the few hundred who stayed were the hard core of the Tang people—the stubbornest, orner- iest individuals, who were getting tired of being pushed around.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep