corpus
noun
a large or complete collection of writings.
corpuses
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pluralof corpus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It was an early form of the bots we have today—but unlike ChatGPT or Gemini, it wasn’t a large language model trained on large corpuses of mostly stolen text scraped from the internet.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2025
Since the narrative of searching for the grail shows up in so many corpuses of data, the algorithm uses that a lot, too — the AI loves cliches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
Often, these under-served languages do not have easily accessible corpuses of written text that are needed to train AI systems or sometimes have no standardized writing system at all.
From The Verge ● Feb. 23, 2022
“What makes machine learning different from regular programming is you look at corpuses of data to make guesses about things,” says Paul Lambert, a product manager for Gmail.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2018
"It smells loike ye'd both been corpuses fer a long toime!"
From Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish
