as in deep
firmly established over time
the hard-core habits that generate our mountains of trash everyday will be extremely difficult to change
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Recent Examples of hard-core
The result is an expensive, but flashy and powerful, gaming laptop for the hard-core crowd.
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Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
To say that Twi-hards — hard-core fans of the franchise — who saw the post were excited about a new development is an understatement.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Since the show started, the bakers have cumulatively made something like twenty-five hundred distinct creations in every discipline, from the common cake arts to hard-core viennoiserie.
—Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
But lower down the org chart, potential is growing for people who don’t necessarily have the hard-core tech skills but are keen to engage with the new technology.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
To say that Twi-hards — hard-core fans of the franchise — who saw the post were excited about a new development is an understatement.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Since the show started, the bakers have cumulatively made something like twenty-five hundred distinct creations in every discipline, from the common cake arts to hard-core viennoiserie.
—Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
But lower down the org chart, potential is growing for people who don’t necessarily have the hard-core tech skills but are keen to engage with the new technology.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
See All Example Sentences for hard-core
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard-core
Adjective
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Frequently, capital comes with deep industry roots — a former music executive backing a music startup, or a healthcare veteran funding a medtech company.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Subprime borrowers and deep subprime borrowers are not likely to buy new cars.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Marioneta, an inveterate ladies’ lady, starts sleeping with Espada (Kerygma Flores), a kind of bullfighter who squares off with cuyes instead of cows.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
17 Aug. 2025
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As Swifties will know, Taylor Swift is an inveterate mom-meeter.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Tell him about your lifelong or in-the-moment problems at [email protected].—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
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Droll and deadpan, Starnone’s novel offers an accounting of the tolls and the consolations of lifelong artistic pursuit.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Regarding her own father, former Hollywood lighting director Thomas Markle, there is such entrenched bitterness, and this situation makes any reconciliation far from likely.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The longer and more entrenched duopoly of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal offers a counterpoint.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Luxurious accommodations include 182 guestrooms, suites and villas are tucked discreetly across 60 acres of mangroves and freshwater canals, balancing seclusion with a strong sense of rooted place.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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This reflects not just the generic moral disengagement but the fact that currently Democrats and Republicans are having disagreements over things that are very, very deeply rooted and often very difficult to talk about.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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