CORES Synonyms: 144 Similar and Opposite Words

cores

noun

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plural of core

as in hearts

the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions in my very core I knew that an injustice was being committed

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as in centers

a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest the capitol building is the core of the political life of the state

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as in kernels

the central part or aspect of something under consideration at last, we come to the core of the issue that has been dividing us

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as in bodies

the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts a starfish can even survive the division of its core into two parts; both halves then regenerate

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as in middles

an area or point that is an equal distance from all points along an edge or outer surface the mountain rises from ground that is almost precisely at the island's core

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Recent Examples of cores Researchers realized the moon was a potential helium-3 treasure trove in the 1970s, after finding it in drill cores gathered by astronauts during some of NASA’s Apollo missions. —

Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 14 May 2026 Cerebras sells the Wafer-Scale Engine 3, a single 5nm AI accelerator with 4 trillion transistors and 900,000 cores fabricated on one continuous wafer. —

Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026 This will be another test of Hafley’s secondary as the Bears own one of the league’s better receiving cores. —

Miami Herald, 14 May 2026 Yet, others reach our planet after being thrust into space in distant supernova explosions (the final blasts of stars that run out of fuel in their cores). —

Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 13 May 2026 Although there are fewer cores than the main desktop and laptop chip lines, Wildcat Lake still leverages cutting-edge process nodes and architectures. —

Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 13 May 2026 Instead of forming quickly and slowly cooling into inactivity, some planetary cores may develop over billions of years while continuing to power magnetic dynamos. —

Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026 The federal plan would increase production of plutonium pits, the cores of nuclear weapons, a project that would cost $5 billion a year for the next six years. —

Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2026 What seems to have changed of late is that those teams’ cores have begun to age, with injuries to key veterans (Aleksander Barkov, Tyler Seguin, Victor Hedman, among others) and all of those long playoff runs adding up. —

James Mirtle, New York Times, 4 May 2026

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Noun

La Familia members typically bang drums and sing their hearts out from opening to closing whistle but decided to stay quiet and brought no flags or instruments to the stadium.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 18 May 2026
The Baaka dingo is proof of just how deeply dingoes had worked their way into people’s hearts and lives by around a thousand years ago.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026