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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

At about this period the true kidneys were replaced by the corpora Wolffiana.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles