very core

collocation in English

meaningsofveryandcore

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very
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈver.i/us
/ˈver.i/
(used to add emphasis to a noun) exact ...
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core
noun
uk
/kɔːr/us
/kɔːr/
the basic and most important part ...
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(Definition ofveryandcorefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvery core

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This theory is not just fuzzy around its edges but at itsverycore.
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Natural selection and adaptive advantages reach through to theverycoreof our being and achievements.
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Reasoning about time and resources is at theverycoreof scheduling problems.
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By means of such narrative the "mechanization of the world picture" assumes meaning as theverycore of the cultural revolution occasioned by classical science.
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Brainstorming possibilities for a particular prototype, typology or approach went to theverycoreof each architect's beliefs and ego.
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These changes are not only affecting how business is traditionally conducted on the farm, but theverycoreof the agriculture-environment relationship.
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The generation of differences is at theverycoreof all experimental scientific research; but information theory and practice codes these movements into frozen binaries.
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This would be a way of, as it were, writing the significance of human life into theverycoreof the cosmos.
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It rejected the manpower-intensive doctrine that had sustained the army in 1914 in favour of one that placed modernity and machinery at theverycoreof its thinking.
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A more serious problem is that this same sort of criticism can be levelled at theverycoreof the reformed logical argument from natural evil.
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Itsverycoreis the belief that open markets deliver the highest welfare gains to everybody, since they allow the competitors with the lowest comparative costs to prevail in competition.
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They have already managed to reach agreement on what we would call a national consensus with regard to theverycoreof the state's operation.
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After all, it does penetrate to theverycoreof a community's customs, ritual and self-respect.
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Therefore, theverycoreof the whole problem is one which is fragmented.
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I believe that decentralised administration for a matter like this is theverycoreand centre of freedom, liberty and efficient administration in this country.
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It is theverycoreof our economic arguments.
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It would appear that this matter touches theverycoreof the problem.
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The creation of an area of freedom, security and justice goes to theverycoreof the relationship between governments and citizens.
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There comes a time, however, when the process of giving away our rights begins to invade theverycoreof sovereignty.
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That goes to theverycoreof my being.
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