- plural of corpus.
corpora
Americannoun
noun
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"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
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
The general-language corpora that provide raw material for today’s dictionaries contain tens of billions of words, a database beyond the wildest imaginings of lexicographers even a generation ago.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2018
From the optic nerves it has been found to extend as far as the corpora geniculata, but seldom as far as the corpora quadrigemina.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
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