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
Oklahoma sludge-metal band Chat Pile have also been welcomed into the scene, despite not technically being a hardcore band.
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Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2025
Open to the public at Kohn Gallery, the one-day show highlighted the sneaker’s cultural presence in the punk and hardcore scenes of the ‘70s and ‘80s, as well as hip-hop and Warped Tour, the traveling rock shows, in the ‘90s and early 2000s.
—Ryma Chikhoune, WWD, 4 Feb. 2025
That was the next step; Obsidian wanted to follow in the footsteps of Bethesda, who’d reinvented the Fallout franchise by turning it from a more rigid, hardcore experience into something more accessible with an immersive first-person POV.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
Over six months, the office turned into a hub for nearly 20 hardcore criminals, bikers and gang members, as well as high-flying lawyers, businessmen and major contractors, all involved in tax fraud, disposal of contaminated soil, money laundering and sometimes even torture of informants.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
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Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2025
Open to the public at Kohn Gallery, the one-day show highlighted the sneaker’s cultural presence in the punk and hardcore scenes of the ‘70s and ‘80s, as well as hip-hop and Warped Tour, the traveling rock shows, in the ‘90s and early 2000s.
—Ryma Chikhoune, WWD, 4 Feb. 2025
That was the next step; Obsidian wanted to follow in the footsteps of Bethesda, who’d reinvented the Fallout franchise by turning it from a more rigid, hardcore experience into something more accessible with an immersive first-person POV.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
Over six months, the office turned into a hub for nearly 20 hardcore criminals, bikers and gang members, as well as high-flying lawyers, businessmen and major contractors, all involved in tax fraud, disposal of contaminated soil, money laundering and sometimes even torture of informants.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard-core
Adjective
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Brody was last spotted in a deep bar conversation with Chalamet.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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Ukraine’s robotic sport plane drone bombers, once reserved for deep strikes on targets hundreds of miles inside Russia, may now be dropping bombs on Russian troops closer to the front line.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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An inveterate bus rider of the old No. 6, Eldridge believed in public transportation.—
Frederick N. Rasmussen,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Nov. 2024
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Even diplomats of Iran and North Korea, two of America’s most inveterate foes, can reside in New York city as a result of this unique host status of our country.—
Saleem H. Ali,
Forbes,
3 Nov. 2024
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Embracing a logic of complementarity, where natural and artificial intelligence, human and technology serve your personal journey of lifelong learning is a way to bring out the best in both, and ourselves.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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For the movies’ original bad boy and archenemy to Daniel, Johnny Lawrence, played by William Zabka, Cobra Kai overall was a cautionary tale about the lifelong impact on a child if care and naturing is absent from a cherished parent or mentor.—
Demetrius Patterson,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Hard-core.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-core. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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