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cores

  • present tense form of core (3rd person singular).

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So they turn to cut-through notches, carved light wells, and strategic wall-offs of interior cores that create space for new residential floors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

To build the new maps, researchers compiled measurements from more than 16,000 soil cores collected around the world.

From Science Daily Jun. 15, 2026

As parts of these clouds collapse under gravity, they create dense regions known as molecular cloud cores where new stars begin to take shape.

From Science Daily Jun. 5, 2026

Defective cores can be disabled, leaving a chip that still functions perfectly well to power different, often cheaper devices—in this case an entry-level laptop instead of a top-of-the-line iPhone.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

Black holes ranging from millions to billions of times more massive than the Sun are suspected in the cores of giant elliptical galaxies such as NGC 6251 and M87.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan