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 In the first teeny fraction of a second after that expansion started, the densities were far higher than in the cores of stars, higher than in neutron stars—actually, very close to what’s needed to create a black hole! —

Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026 The company uses primarily Colorado trees to make the wooden cores of its gear in an effort to make the production process more sustainable while also making a product that is long-lasting. —

Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2026 This loadout gives it a total of 32 Xe2-HPG cores and a grand total of 4,096 pixel shaders. —

Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026 While GPUs are ideal for training and running AI models because their thousands of cores can perform many operations simultaneously, CPUs have a smaller number of powerful cores running sequential general-purpose tasks. —

Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026 This suburban drift does not necessarily represent a worrying shift to sprawl — some of Paris’ suburbs are as densely populated as the cores of major North American cities. —

Marie Patino, Bloomberg, 20 Mar. 2026 In a gas-dwarf scenario, planets are believed to form rock cores that accrete a small percentage of hydrogen-helium during the formation process. —

Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026 These are signs of human and natural activity that made it into the atmosphere and were stored in ice cores. —

Nidhi Sharma, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2026 Similar bright explosions may be produced not only by binary neutron star mergers, but also by mergers involving neutron stars and black holes, or even other types of compact stellar remnants such as white dwarfs, the leftover cores of Sun-like stars. —

Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026

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Noun

Previously, an English bull terrier Border collie mix was melting hearts on social media.

— Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
For all the success Duke has had through the years, the Blue Devils have now had hearts broken by UConn three straight times in the Big Dance.

— Noah Trister, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2026