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collocation

[kol-uh-kay-shuhn] / ˌkɒl əˈkeɪ ʃən /




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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

They helped me in the collocation of the statements and in the deduction of the philosophy behind them.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau

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

Much more rarely than the sciences has it recourse to a technical vocabulary, being content to express itself in ordinary words though using them and their collocations with a careful delicacy and painstaking adroitness.

From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin

The absence of the passive in most, if not all, American tongues is supplied by similar inadequate collocations of words.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

“Vitalism,” according to this authority, is to be rejected, but instead of “vital force” he offers us “given properties,” and the alleged machine-like collocations of the most minute elements.

From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto

Nyâya-Vais`e@sika regarded all effects as being due to the assemblage of certain collocations which unconditionally, invariably, and immediately preceded these effects.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta


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