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noun Archaeology.

a stone tool with a cutting edge, as a hand ax, chopper, or scraper, formed by chipping away flakes from a core.

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How to use core tool in a sentence

It’s a complex problem to unpack because it cuts to the heart of park effects and other core tools in the sabermetric arsenal.
The Rockies Have Their Worst Coors Field Hangover Yet|Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com)|July 7, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
Zoom sees these new products as commonsense additions to its core tool, which it says could still get better.
The pandemic was great for Zoom. What happens when there’s a vaccine?|Rani Molla|December 4, 2020|Vox
It is a spy series at its core, but you guys never really pull from the headlines.
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS|Marlow Stern|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Another read: “We need leaders who will stand against Common Core.”
Rand Paul’s Passive-Aggressive Trolling Campaign|Olivia Nuzzi|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

A soldier in the service of ideals and aspirations that formed his core.
Mario Cuomo, Always Moving Us Toward the Light|Mike Barnicle|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Some of them would open up deep splits in core Democratic constituencies.
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society|Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Politicians who openly associated with Duke, or his hard-core associates, did so at their own risk.
The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise|Jason Berry|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The execution is such that the drawing of the gown and the lines of the face seem to have been traced by an engraver's tool.
Bastien Lepage|Fr. Crastre
But Harris, exhausted and shaken as he was to the very core, paced by his side, only half listening.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood
In moments of utter bereavement who has not felt, to the heart's core, the tender attachment of a faithful dog?
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie
Reaching into one of the secret pockets of his wide black belt he removed a curiously shaped tool of finest tempered steel.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
Whoever denied the former proposition was called a tool of the Court.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay

Scientific definitions for core tool

core tool

A stone tool consisting of a core that is flaked (struck with another rock or similar material) to produce a cutting edge or edges. Core tools date at least to the beginning of the Oldowan tool industry and are the earliest stone tools known to have been deliberately fashioned by humans. Core tools include choppers, cleavers, and hand axes. Compare flake tool.