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corpus

[kawr-puhs] / ˈkɔr pəs /


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There are lots of parallels between these two stories: family members getting separated from loved ones, then turning to the courts, specifically to habeas corpus petitions, to claim that the separation is unlawful.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

The day of The Times’ article publication, the public defenders office helped the family file a habeas corpus petition on behalf of Wilber.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

In the Supreme Court’s recently completed 2025-26 term, Alito expanded his corpus of transformative rulings.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Habeas corpus is a basic legal principle that protects people from being unlawfully detained and the petition allows immigrants like Wilber to challenge the legality of their detention.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Shultz filed his habeas corpus petition, and the Kansas Supreme Court commissioned one of its own retired justices, the Honorable Walter G. Thiele, to conduct a full-scale hearing.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

"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

These two corpora have become the tools most commonly used by judges who favor legal corpus linguistics.

From The Verge Jun. 7, 2022

Publishers might strike licensing deals, of course, making their text available to large firms for inclusion in their corpora.

From Scientific American May 4, 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

Immediately in front of the corpora quadrigemina, the white fibres of the posterior commissure pass across between the two optic thalami.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" 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

Some people swapped corpuses just to get rid of a cold.

From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow




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