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  • noun Plural form of corpus.

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Examples

  • In its first few years, Google had developed a number of specialized forms of search, known as verticals, for various corpuses—such as video, images, shopping catalogs, and locations maps.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • Before the Internet, the main source material for these translations had been corpuses such as UN documents that had been translated into multiple languages.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • In its first few years, Google had developed a number of specialized forms of search, known as verticals, for various corpuses—such as video, images, shopping catalogs, and locations maps.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • They dug through various corpuses, including spoken, formal and informal and several written genres, again formal and informal, and found only one in which “hopefully” was used as anything other than a sentential adverb; romance fiction.

    What’s wrong with “hopefully”? « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • Before the Internet, the main source material for these translations had been corpuses such as UN documents that had been translated into multiple languages.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • They do not, however, give us an appraisal of the kind that determines performance rather than earmarked money corpuses.

    WSJIDEBATE: Does India Need an Annual Budget Speech? 2010

  • They do not, however, give us an appraisal of the kind that determines performance rather than earmarked money corpuses.

    WSJIDEBATE: Does India Need an Annual Budget Speech? 2010

  • But it may well be a non-book source such as a newspaper or magazine that isn't in the mass digitized-book corpuses.

    Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

  • They do not, however, give us an appraisal of the kind that determines performance rather than earmarked money corpuses.

    WSJIDEBATE: Does India Need an Annual Budget Speech? 2010

  • They do not, however, give us an appraisal of the kind that determines performance rather than earmarked money corpuses.

    WSJIDEBATE: Does India Need an Annual Budget Speech? 2010

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