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The results showed that on a nano level, the blacktip shark’s cartilage had two distinct regions, the corpus calcareum and the intermediale.
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Discover Magazine, 20 May 2025
The academic corpus treats market timing like a kind of mirage - achievable in theory but not in practice.
—Steven Desmyter, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
The thundering poet termed the result uninspired and banal, so the other professor went into Dickinson’s 1,800-poem corpus, retrieved an obscure quatrain and presented it to the poet, who called the result banal and uninspired.
—David Galef, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
In that regard, Renaissance architects were much closer in spirit to Renaissance writers than to Renaissance painters: Renaissance writers, too, tried to revive a classical language—mainly Cicero’s Latin—by imitating a corpus of extant ancient sources.
—Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
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Discover Magazine, 20 May 2025
The academic corpus treats market timing like a kind of mirage - achievable in theory but not in practice.
—Steven Desmyter, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
The thundering poet termed the result uninspired and banal, so the other professor went into Dickinson’s 1,800-poem corpus, retrieved an obscure quatrain and presented it to the poet, who called the result banal and uninspired.
—David Galef, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
In that regard, Renaissance architects were much closer in spirit to Renaissance writers than to Renaissance painters: Renaissance writers, too, tried to revive a classical language—mainly Cicero’s Latin—by imitating a corpus of extant ancient sources.
—Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corpus
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Schools must teach students to think critically about AI outputs, understand the bias in AI systems, and recognize the appropriate applications of AI across different contexts.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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Sure, at some point, as alternative power sources such as solar, wind and nuclear become more prevalent, these outputs may diminish.—
Anand Rao,
Fortune,
16 Aug. 2025
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Their corpses, reportedly decomposed and mauled by pigs, were not found for another three days, according to a police statement issued at the time.—
Christina Coulter,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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There was one dead roach under the margarita slushee machine, and 20 roach corpses on a sticky trap under a reach-in cooler.—
David J. Neal
August 1,
Miami Herald,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Corpus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpus. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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