corpus

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cor·pus | \ ˈkȯr-pəs

plural corpora\ ˈkȯr-p(ə-)rə

Definition of corpus

1 : the body of a human or animal especially when dead

2a : the main part or body of a bodily structure or organ the corpus of the uterus

b : the main body or corporeal substance of a thing specifically : the principal of a fund or estate as distinct from income or interest

3a : all the writings or works of a particular kind or on a particular subject especially : the complete works of an author

b : a collection or body of knowledge or evidence especially : a collection of recorded utterances used as a basis for the descriptive analysis of a language

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Examples of corpus in a Sentence

a computerized corpus of English Jane Austen's corpus is modest in number but magnificent in achievement.

Recent Examples on the Web Six months before e-commerce roll-up giant Thrasio entered India with a $500 million corpus in mid-January, the two boAt founders Gupta and Sameer Mehta backed 10club. — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2022 With director Lee Jae-kyu’s new take on the subgenre and a fresh setting, All of Us Are Dead is a worthy successor in the growing Korean zombie show corpus. — Sara Merican, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022 Keith Phipps, a longtime critic for The A.V. Club, has absorbed the whole of the corpus, from Adaptation to Zandalee, and lived to write about it. — Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022 These few books notwithstanding, Connell’s large ouevre is mostly forgotten, his fiction (aside from the Bridge novels) rarely invoked by younger writers, his corpus lost to the last century. — Marc Weingarten, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022 The truth is by accessing the collective corpus of human resolutions, AI might conceive of ideas our pea brains cannot — better ideas. — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021 Among those, there is probably only a single person who will be discovered almost exclusively by two generally nonoverlapping groups: avid readers of the corpus of Noam Chomsky, and members of the Marine Corps. — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2022 Separately, the 15th Finance Commission has released Rs4,417, out of a corpus of Rs12,139 crore, as grants to urban local bodies in 42 cities with a population of over a million, to spend on air pollution abatement activities till 2025-’26. — Ishan Kukreti, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2021 But neither this concise book nor the wider corpus of Wood’s work is best understood as a narrow response to radical theorists of race relations. — Sam Negus, National Review, 10 Oct. 2021 See More

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