WordNet
Usage examples of "core group".
Those in the know - the core group of researchers in any field who spend a lot of time at conferences and seminars chatting about the state of the art - will simply disregard the anomalous result, or they will have gossiped it away in the bar after the meeting.
I've got a good bunch of peoplea solid core group to which I'll be adding new people as they become available.
Ultimately, this academy would provide a core group that could allow us to restore the Jedi Knights as protectors of the New Republic.
Everyone there-all the members of the core group, with the exception of Sondra-had heard it, right down to where and when he and Anna could meet.
As the days passed a core group of workers slowly emerged, people who recognized each other for their willingness to get the job done, for their desire to finish paragraphs rather than posture.
And for any given problem in science, the people who were actually out there on the edge making progress constituted a special group, of a few hundred at most-often with a core group of synthesists and innovators that was no more than a dozen people in all the worlds-inventing a new jargon of their dialect to convey their new insights, arguing over results, suggesting new avenues of investigation, giving each other jobs in labs, meeting at conferences specially devoted to the topic-talking to each other, in all the media there were.
The urban man may have a core group of people with whom his interactions are sustained over long periods of time, but he also interacts with hundreds, perhaps thousands of people whom he may see only once or twice and who then vanish into anonymity.
Probably they'd caught it from her original core group of coveners and re-creationists, who could talk black into white and up into down, and loved to do it-plus it was entertainment to replace TV.