How to Use to the core in a Sentence
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The scenes that leave us shook to the core for nights to come?
—Milan Polk, Men's Health, 26 Jan. 2023
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Work hard to find the words to get to the core of a topic.
—Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
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But once the coast is clear, this couple will be loyal to the core.
—Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 25 Mar. 2023
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This was the second incident that struck me to the core.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 21 Apr. 2024
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The next time Arteaga was shaken to the core was in July 2018.
—Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2024
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Hollowed to the core, the Haitian state exists in name only.
—Monique Clesca, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
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This threat cuts to the core of the liberal democratic way of life.
—Richard Fontaine, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2023
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This gets to the core of how people think of autism and disability as a whole.
—Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 11 July 2023
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Traders couldn't quite get to the core of the latest inflation report.
—Heard Editors, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
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This is a thriller to the core, one that readers will want to finish in a single sitting.
—E.a. Aymar, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
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Everything comes back to the core story of this country: land that was stolen from the get-go.
—Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
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Next up, honoree Willett spoke to the core of what marketing means to her.
—Meredith Woerner, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
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Yet the series remains authentic to the core of O’Malley’s epic creation.
—Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
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Now the kid who has grown up around horses and ridden horses since high school, an equestrian to the core, has a pony car.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2024
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At its heart, the project is an attempt to get to the core of the creative process by coding the cognitive process into software.
—The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2024
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The ruling shook American jurisprudence around firearms to the core.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
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The mechanical core is on the windowless fourth side, creating depths up to 72 feet from the windows to the core.
—Larry Buchanan, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
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In the next instant, Flannery rises from her typewriter, shaken to the core.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
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Both elections speak to the core of climate change’s democracy challenge.
—Justin Worland, TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
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And in the coming year, their contributions can be even more critical to the core business.
—Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
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Page dresses according to the core tenets of WFH styling: comfort, comfort, and comfort.
—Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Feb. 2023
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That desire speaks to the core values White hopes to bring into the Sun organization.
—Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 21 Nov. 2022
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There is no greater example of the importance of this than the Covid-19 pandemic that shook nearly every form of business to the core.
—Rebecca Kowalewicz, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
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Written by Ernest Lehman, then punched up, gloriously, by co-writer Clifford Odets, the movie is a writer’s movie to the core.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
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Recipes editor Ann Maloney is a sheet pan fan to the core, and this recipe is yet another example of how the kitchen workhorse can save you time and feed a crowd.
—Matt Brooks, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
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Can anyone ever shake us to the core the way Brando did simply by walking downstage eating an apple?
—Ty Burr, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
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But most current students feel that some change must be made to the core classes, according to surveys administered by the task force.
—al, 9 Nov. 2022
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Throughout the first season, we’re introduced to the core cast of the Straw Hat pirates across a series of four two-episode stories that provide a deep dive into a member of Luffy’s crew.
—William Goodman, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2023
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The canopy spins in 360 degrees to supposedly prevent damage to the core mechanism.
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2022
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Soaring vocals and storytelling, guitars out-of-this-world, and drumming that has influenced my playing to the core.
—Liza Lentini, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2024
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