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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

For example, corpora, specifically the corpora used for legal corpus linguistics, contains millions of words from TV programs, magazines, and newspapers — news sources.

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

The posterior knob-like extremity of the thalamus is called the pulvinar; this, as well as the two corpora geniculata and the superior corpus quadrigeminum, is connected with the optic tract.

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

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