collocation
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Also, “hyperscalers and collocation companies are expected to invest about $7 trillion in data center infrastructure globally over the course of 2025 to 2030, with about $800 billion going towards electrical equipment and mechanical equipment.”
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
Linguists call it collocation: the likelihood of two words occurring together.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2016
It’s a work of journalism that never felt like journalism, a collocation of short quotes, a book that’s both joyful and angry, a book to get lost in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2016
Notably, the script used to analyze the texts relied on modified versions of four of the Natural Language Toolkit’s prepackaged modules: the word tokenizer, part of speech tagger, WordNetLemmatizer, and collocation finder.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 26, 2012
In this collocation occur many dears, parental as well as conjugal; as—“Hold up your head and don't look quite so cross, dear.”
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
The laws of clash, the effects of distance upon attraction and repulsion, all seem arbitrary collocations of data.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
Grimm gives some examples in which he thinks that the ideas, and their collocations in the story, can only have originally occurred to one mind, once for all.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
The rise of knowledge is thus only parallel to certain objective collocations of things which somehow have the special fitness that they and they alone are perceived at that particular moment.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
The conditions and collocations of the reals change constantly, but the reals themselves are unchangeable.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
Their words are ideas—their words are images, enchanting collocations and unforgettable signs.
From The Tragic Muse by Henry James
