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
They require to have everything proved to them by the strictest collocation of actual instances.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
HE jingling rhymes of Dr. Watts Excite the reader's just impatience, He wearies of Sir Walter Scott's Melodious verbal collocations, And with advancing years he learns To love the simpler style of Burns.
From More Misrepresentative Men by Harry Graham
These are ordinarily true only within certain limits of time, place, and circumstance, since, beyond these, there may be different collocations or counteracting agencies.
From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by W. (William) Stebbing
Now, the possibility of the occurrence of counteracting causes which do not arise from any of the conditions involved in the law itself depends on the original collocations.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill
We piped with a greater facility and to a richer meed of recognition; which sounds as if we might have become, in these strange collocations, fairly offensive little prigs.
From A Small Boy and Others by Henry James
The derivative law in this case depends not solely on laws, but on a collocation; and collocations cannot be reduced to any law.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
