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[kawr-puhs] / ˈkɔr pəs /


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Discovery, roping in a multibillion-dollar corpus of film-and-TV studios, streaming services, newsrooms, movie theaters, and book imprints under the aegis of one man, nepo baby David Ellison.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Miri said he filed a habeas corpus petition on June 19, a legal action that challenges the lawfulness of a person’s detention, but declined to be interviewed on the case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

A habeas corpus hearing is scheduled for Wednesday in San Antonio.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

In the decade that followed, the justices decided 9/11-related cases involving due process, habeas corpus, international humanitarian law and civil procedure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Without jail, there could be no writ of habeas corpus.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

"They are trained on a corpora of books, articles and websites, even the entirety of English Wikipedia, but these texts rarely feature emoji."

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2022

For example, corpora, specifically the corpora used for legal corpus linguistics, contains millions of words from TV programs, magazines, and newspapers — news sources.

From The Verge ● Jun. 7, 2022

But computers and digital corpora make this far faster today: Ben Blatt adopted these techniques for many clever experiments in “Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve”, his book from 2017.

From Economist ● Mar. 8, 2018

Whereas it’s now easy to assemble written-text corpora and open a window on how language functions in a particular environment, doing so for spoken language has always been far harder.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2018

His discoveries, co-ordinated and arranged in vast corpora inscriptionum, stand now alongside Herodotus or Livy, furnishing a basis for their criticism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

Since the narrative of searching for the grail shows up in so many corpuses of data, the algorithm uses that a lot, too — the AI loves cliches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

Often, these under-served languages do not have easily accessible corpuses of written text that are needed to train AI systems or sometimes have no standardized writing system at all.

From The Verge ● Feb. 23, 2022

For example, a word-vector algorithm will crawl huge corpuses of text such as Amazon product reviews or news articles, and learn from context which words are similar.

From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2018

“What makes machine learning different from regular programming is you look at corpuses of data to make guesses about things,” says Paul Lambert, a product manager for Gmail.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2018

Do ’ee happen to know, Mr Morley, ’ow it is that bald heads an’ fat corpuses a’most always go together?”

From The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne


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