cores

""The old recipe calls for two cores of wheat, a measurement no longer used." "

"the core of an apple or quince"

"The apple cores went into the compost bin after snack time. "

"the core of a square"

"the core of a subject"

"The foundry used sand cores to create the hollow chambers inside the engine block. "

"The deer's antlers were growing, and the strong cores were already visible. "

"In the old computer lab, some machines still used cores to store data, but they were much slower than the new solid-state drives. "

"I wanted to play a particular computer game, which required I buy a new computer, so while the game said it needed at least a dual-core processor, I wanted my computer to be a bit ahead of the curve, so I bought a quad-core."

"a floor panel with a Nomex honeycomb core"

"The nuclear reactor's cores generate tremendous heat to produce electricity. "

"The electromagnet used to pick up scrap metal had powerful iron cores inside its coils, concentrating the magnetic field to lift heavy loads. "

"The shepherd worried because many sheep in his flock were listless, showing signs of cores. "

"After drilling deep into the ground, geologists analyzed the cores to understand the layers of rock beneath the surface. "

"The lab technician prepared the microscope slides to examine the tissue cores extracted from the patient's liver. "

"The protein's stability is maintained by the hydrophobic amino acids clustered in its cores, away from the surrounding water. "

""After much debate, the roommates agreed on an allocation of chores that everyone considered fair; this allocation belonged to the cores because no group of roommates could reorganize the chores in a way that would make them all better off." "

"The art teacher used several cardboard cores to create a colorful paper sculpture for the school exhibit. "

"To understand the behavior of sodium, chemists focus on its single valence electron, treating the sodium cores as a stable, positively charged unit. "

"I usually core apples before baking them into a pie. "

"The geologist cores the rock to study its composition. "

"The cores of volunteers arrived early to help set up the charity event. "

"The miners finished their cores and emerged from the mine, covered in coal dust. "

""When I bought the rebuilt car alternator, I paid an extra $50 for the cores, which I'll get back when I return my old, broken alternator." "