Definitions

to the core

ADJECTIVE

dyed-in-the-wool

Synonyms

WEAK

absolute complete confirmed congenital deep-down deep-dyed deep-rooted deep-seated deeply ingrained die-hard entrenched fixed full-fledged genuine hardened infixed ingrained instilled long-standing out and out thorough thoroughgoing through-and-through true unchangeable uncompromising utter well-established

ADVERB

utterly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absolutely altogether completely entirely extremely fully perfectly quite thoroughly totally wholly

WEAK

all all in all exactly hook, line, and sinker in toto just plumb purely to the nth degree well

Antonyms

STRONGEST

inadequately incompletely partially partly

WEAK

uncertain

Example Sentences

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This gets to the core of the matter: AI is driving runaway demand for processors like those Nvidia makes, but they would be paperweights without memory, so demand there is going bananas, too.

From Barron's

Cutting to the core of investments, separate good from bad ones and then great from just OK, and stick with the best names over time is another trait.

From MarketWatch

For much of the afternoon they resorted to trying to bore Head out with a field spread far and wide - a tactic that must have hurt Ben Stokes to the core.

From BBC

“Trying to get to the core of what makes it look like the 1982 “grid”; in many cases it was turning things off.

From Los Angeles Times

A big lesson since Sputnik launched the Space Age is that we are Earthlings to the core.

From Slate

to the core

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