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corpus

[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

A continuous dialogue is going on between the two hemispheres, channeled through an immense bundle of nerves, the corpus callosum, the bridge between creativity and analysis, both of which are necessary to understand the world.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

"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

A new legal tool Using corpora to answer legal questions, a strategy often referred to as legal corpus linguistics, has grown increasingly popular in some legal circles within the past decade.

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

This is the form which has chiefly attracted the attention of the medical profession, as it very often accompanies paralytic affections from disease of the corpora striata.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan

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

“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

Again, you might think news related corpuses could constitute the most abundant trove of information to be fed into the Knowledge Graph.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2012

Then came sheer erudition—the nature of chemical elements, stars in their courses, kings of England with their Magna Chartas and habeas corpuses.

From The Devil's Garden by W. B. Maxwell


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