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collocation

[kol-uh-kay-shuhn] / ˌkɒl əˈkeɪ ʃən /




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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

And yet, although the words were all familiar enough, their collocation mystified her.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

Along with any number of stationary antecedents, which are collocations, there must be at least one changing antecedent, which is a force.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill

It is this capacity of the collocations that is called pramâ@na.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta

But in any case it is the preceding collocations that combine to produce the effect jointly.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta

“Vitalism,” according to this authority, is to be rejected, but instead of “vital force” he offers us “given properties,” and the alleged machine-like collocations of the most minute elements.

From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto

But collocations of stars are by no means limited to two.

From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage


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