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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.
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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
In the right light, the social network for professionals is a lavish psychoanalytic corpus, bursting with naked ambition, inspiration, desperation, status-seeking, spiritual yearning, brownnosing, name-dropping, corporate shilling, and self-promotion.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Foreign Trusts And The Transfer Tax If a covered gift or covered bequest is made to a foreign trust, the Section 2801 tax applies to any distribution to a U.S. recipient from that trust, whether of income or corpus.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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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
In the right light, the social network for professionals is a lavish psychoanalytic corpus, bursting with naked ambition, inspiration, desperation, status-seeking, spiritual yearning, brownnosing, name-dropping, corporate shilling, and self-promotion.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Foreign Trusts And The Transfer Tax If a covered gift or covered bequest is made to a foreign trust, the Section 2801 tax applies to any distribution to a U.S. recipient from that trust, whether of income or corpus.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corpus
Noun
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Both manufacturing supply and demand returned to growth in June, according to Caixin, with output expanding at the fastest pace since November.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
1 July 2025
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Aside from its output, one of the most noteworthy elements of the all-wheel-drive Bolide is its aerodynamic acumen owed to the body design.—
Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
30 June 2025
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The scene is absurd to the point of funny—four men in tight quarters with an exposed corpse and yet affably disinterested.—
Diana Arterian
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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One, set in a natural history museum, involves fossils; there’s a locked room mystery (with a mystery writer for a victim), which delights Patience, an Agatha Christie fan, and there’s a corpse that seemingly walks off a table in the morgue.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2025
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“Corpus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpus. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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