core
noun
the central part of a fleshy fruit, containing the seeds.
cores
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present tense formof core (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Once the parts are produced, the ceramic cores and wax used to make them are destroyed, Howmet’s Chief Executive John Plant said at an investor meeting earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
They grow about a centimeter or two a year and by sampling cores at the millimeter scale, the team was able to develop windows of monthly temperature records scattered across the past millennium.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
So scientists anchor the world’s coordinates to far-off stillness: quasars, the luminous cores of galaxies billions of light-years away, observed nightly by radio telescopes across multiple continents and cross-checked with lasers bounced off satellites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The scientists analyzed the composition of the sediment cores and measured how quickly material from the permafrost accumulated on the ocean floor.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Inside the first bag was common everyday trash—soda bottles, soup cans, potato chip wrappers, apple cores.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
