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 streamer knew the hardcore fans would come, so the growth is in capturing casual viewers, with language being the biggest barrier to entry.
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Kambole Campbell,
Variety,
23 June 2026
Before the tournament, Balogun was mostly unknown to the American public, except by hard-core soccer fans.
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Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
20 June 2026
This 260-gallon storage box is built to last thanks to internal steel bars and hardcore resin.
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Quincy Bulin,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 June 2026
The movie is The Furious, the hardcore martial arts film with a deep pedigree of genre talent, and is being compared to something as impactful as The Raid, released 15 years ago in 2011.
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Kambole Campbell,
Variety,
23 June 2026
Before the tournament, Balogun was mostly unknown to the American public, except by hard-core soccer fans.
—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
20 June 2026
This 260-gallon storage box is built to last thanks to internal steel bars and hardcore resin.
—
Quincy Bulin,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 June 2026
The movie is The Furious, the hardcore martial arts film with a deep pedigree of genre talent, and is being compared to something as impactful as The Raid, released 15 years ago in 2011.
—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard-core
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The arils are deep ruby-red in color and have a sweet yet slightly tart flavor that many people find refreshing.
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Facing intense competition, Accor recognized the need for deeper customer retention and advocacy.
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The inveterate white supremacist Woodrow Wilson mouthed anti-colonial rhetoric before reverting to form at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
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The far-outside post doesn’t compromise this inveterate deep closer, but a lack of pace up front definitely will.
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Edward, who has spent his lifelong federal career at a military base in New York, has little interest in driving to Niagara Falls for its days-long fireworks display, let alone traveling to New York City for its sprawling maritime celebration.
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The area last week was surrounded by surveillance cameras and patrolled by National Guardsmen as lifelong resident John Cates strolled the area.
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The issue is so entrenched that even college professors are complaining that undergrads are barely able to get through the basic reading they’re assigned.
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Vibe coding offers a fast way to build a working application, but such apps are unlikely to be able to compete with the scale of features and governance offered by entrenched SaaS vendors.
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Separating identity from one's profession allows for continuous learning and thriving in an evolving workplace, ensuring value comes from inherent capabilities, not just a role.
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The physical configuration achieves passive safety operational profiles by relying on subcritical physics variables and inherent material limitations.
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Born in Jakarta and raised in Austin, Texas, her Chinese-Indonesian heritage and passion for travel informed her sensibility for stories that are formally inventive and culturally rooted.
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His 2023 Sangiovese comes from old vines whose cuttings were smuggled from Isole e Olena and Fontodi in Chianti in the mid-1980s, own-rooted, never replicated.
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“Hard-core.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-core. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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