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corpora

American  
[kawr-per-uh] / ˈkɔr pər ə /

noun

  1. a plural of corpus.


corpora British  
/ ˈkɔːpərə /

noun

  1. the plural of corpus

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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

“The district court’s evaluation of corpora is fatally flawed,” they wrote — and is “opaque and unreproducible.”

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 the mesencephalon fibres corresponding with those of the fillet of higher vertebrates can be seen, and there is a nucleus in the hinder part of the corpora bigemina foreshadowing the separation into corpora quadrigemina.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

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