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
Linguists usually use corpora for scholarly projects to break down how language is used and what words are used for.
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
Once they are ovulated, the eggs are exposed to but few hazards until laid; counts of corpora lutea are an accurate indication of the number of eggs laid.
From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.
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