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

“It was just a waste of time, because you were never going to persuade the hard core to change their position.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2023

“There is a hard core of voters on both sides who think this is great.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2023

He lived in a thin, hard core of consciousness; he felt time slipping by; the darkness round him lived, breathed.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright