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The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first ton-scale cryogenic calorimeter array operated underground with stable multi-year performance. While primarily designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{130}$Te at $\sim 2.5$ MeV, its excellent energy resolution and low background enable physics searches over a much wider energy range. Recent developments in data processing and event selection have extended the accessible energy region of CUORE down to the keV scale. This allows for the possibility of detecting low energy processes, such as nuclear recoils produced from interactions with weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter. We present the search for a WIMP induced annual modulation on the CUORE experiment, in addition to describing the applied analysis techniques to access the keV scale region of CUORE’s data.