- plural of corpus.
corpora
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
Whereas it’s now easy to assemble written-text corpora and open a window on how language functions in a particular environment, doing so for spoken language has always been far harder.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2018
In these animals, modified by heredity, the two eyes generally protruded, although in the parents usually only one showed exophthalmia, the lesion having been made in most cases only on one of the corpora restiformia.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
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