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On social media, words that end with -core typically refer to a particular style or aesthetic.
What do you consider to be hipstercore music?
The gardencore aesthetic includes makeup in soft, mushroom and earth tones, and jewellery inspired by fairies, fruit, flowers, plants, and woodland creatures.
"Americancore" is used satirically to refer to an aesthetic that involves being as stereotypically American as possible.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fashion
anti-fashion
clothes horse
collection
couture
couturier
cover girl
fashion statement
fashionista
fast fashion
geek chic
mannequin
milliner
missy
mock croc
mode
modelling
swag
the fashion police
trend
vogue

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core | American Dictionary

core
noun[ C ]
us/kɔr, koʊr/

corenoun[C] (FRUIT)

the hard, central part of some fruits, such as apples, which contains the seeds

corenoun[C] (CENTER)

the center or most important part of something:
Farmers formed the core of traditional party support.
Safety concerns are at the core of the new federal policies.
earth science
The core of the earth is its center, made up of a liquid inner core and a solid outer core.
core
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/kɔr, koʊr/

coreadjective[not gradable] (CENTRAL)

central; basic:
We want to appeal to our core supporters without turning off undecided voters.
The notion of love is one of the core values of our civilization.
We have to concentrate on the core business, management said.
core
verb[ T ]
us/kɔr, koʊr/

coreverb[T] (FRUIT)

to remove the core of fruit

core | Business English

core
noun[ C,usually singular ]
uk /kɔːr/us
the most important or most basic part of something:
the core of sthThe core of the bank's business is in Hong Kong.
be at the core of sthThe internet is increasingly at the core of the telecoms business.
core
adjective[ usually before noun ]
uk /kɔːr/us
most important:
core activities/operations
core products/servicesThey are cutting back production of some of their core products.
core customers/workers
core valuesFor a company to achieve a competitive advantage it is important to have core values and a clearly defined purpose.
a core market/business

Examples of core

core
It permits simulation of the coupled dynamics of valence electrons and ionic cores in a molecule or a material.
These blocks will be returned after extraction of small diameter cores of tissue for the production of tissue micro-arrays.
Figure 4 analyses how the core radius depends upon the distance of the disclination from the surface.
This represents the core of the application: the remaining work is 'overhead' that should be minimised by a good implementation.
Although there has been enormous progress toward accomplishing parts of the vision, the core problem - the design of ligands to bind proteins - has remained intractable.
In addition, the local (re)presentation of the monument was deconstructed by removing a core element, the 'king's table'.
Plaques contain variable numbers of activated microglia as well as reactive astrocytes surrounding the core.
The high-density pellet core is surrounded by a hot, fully ionized low-density corona.
The core of the material is presented in sufficient detail that the survey may serve as a text for teaching constrained global optimization.
These surfaces are distorted by hydrostatic balance toward negative anomalies of pressure produced by the bend of the low-pressure vortex cores.
These results support the claim that a failure of self-monitoring may underlie the core symptoms of schizophrenia.
The fracture pattern of this lithology tends to lead to break up of the cores.
Thus, regardless of how it is packaged, every version of the cosmological argument can be assessed by targeting this core structure.
This process is accompanied by a vertical realignment of the vortex cores inside each layer.
The region outside the core is either visible or not visible throughout the whole sequence, including the sections in the wake.
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Collocations withcore

core

These are words often used in combination with core.

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central core
The outer shell, among other things, protected the central core from attack.
common core
As a result of the repeated exchanges of ideas, the special issue starts from a common core of questions and concepts.
concrete core
An abstract expression represents a set of terms from the concrete core language, which are called its concretizations.
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