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Its final choice was also supported by evidence of "real language usage", after its experts tracked the use of the shortlisted words throughout the year via "a 30-billion-word corpus of global language data".
From Barron's
That corpus of knowledge is frequently called the humanities, though it rests on the foundation of the divine in our shared tradition.
I feel like a vessel for a soul rather than a corpus burdened by physics and gravity.
From Los Angeles Times
The habeas corpus complaint repeatedly characterized a teenage Fiorella as a shy, quiet child who was teased by peers for being “slow.”
From Los Angeles Times
All those motherf***ers who are out there arresting U.S. citizens, violating habeas corpus and bending rules to enforce a police state deserve a lot more than a sandwich dumped on them.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
