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
Montgomery has barely been in the big leagues for two months but has already put his name alongside a couple of franchise icons (and another hard-core punisher of baseballs).
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Phil Rogers, Forbes.com, 9 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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Phil Rogers, Forbes.com, 9 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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Driving through deep water can also affect a vehicle's mechanical and electrical systems.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Nov. 2025
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Gjoshe had suffered a deep wound to his upper arm and had to wait until Tuesday for surgery.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The La Mancha manor home’s namesake, Josie, (real name is José Fernández-Pacheco) is an inveterate aesthete who is best known to Spanish television audiences as a presenter extraordinaire.—
Maite Sebastiá,
Architectural Digest,
4 Oct. 2025
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Unless just being an inveterate people-pleaser produces the same result.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The new General Counsel of ZooMass is lifelong payroll patriot David Lowy.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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The 23-year-old Shou, a lifelong Fremont resident, won out over hundreds of others eager to play 17-year-old Joe, a troubled San Gabriel Valley area high school student with schizophrenia whose distraught mom Irene (Liu, in a transformative performance) is dying of cancer.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The daughter of a South African mother who grew up in a white town in the Northeast, Clemmons uses her frequent travels to Johannesburg to contextualize the promises of freedom, the realities of entrenched inequalities, and consequences of violence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Twin Cities are home to the US’s largest diaspora from Somalia, a small Muslim-majority nation on the Horn of Africa that has been rent by decades of civil war and entrenched poverty.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The risks inherent in the LBO structure are exacerbated by the amount of debt PSKY must incur, its current financial position and future prospects, as well as the lengthy period to close the transaction – which PSKY itself estimates to be 12-18 months following signing.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
7 Jan. 2026
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Seen through this lens, every person possesses inherent dignity and value.—
James O. Cunningham,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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On a remote island in the Chesapeake Bay, a deeply rooted Christian fishing community confronts the erosion of land and tradition, as their centuries-old way of life, anchored in faith, approaches a turning point.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
6 Jan. 2026
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Pieces are heavily rooted in alpine style with pieces that capture a retro spirit that doubles with modern perspective on fit and color, an element Stevenson's especially jazzed about.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Hard-core.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-core. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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