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Habeas corpus was nationalized as part of the qualitative and quantitative increase in federal power brought on by the Civil War.
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 25 May 2026
Renaissance humanists certainly emphasized a corpus of Greek and Roman classics for the self-fashioned man, the predictable coterie that includes Plato and Aristotle, Cicero and Virgil.
—Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
Unlike LLMs, which are trained on data scraped from the vast corpus of the internet, world models rely heavily on video—which is far more complex and harder to collect, label, and train on at scale.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 20 May 2026
That’s only possible because of the corpus of transcripts that sits underneath it.
—Gina Chua, semafor.com, 6 May 2026
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 25 May 2026
Renaissance humanists certainly emphasized a corpus of Greek and Roman classics for the self-fashioned man, the predictable coterie that includes Plato and Aristotle, Cicero and Virgil.
—Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
Unlike LLMs, which are trained on data scraped from the vast corpus of the internet, world models rely heavily on video—which is far more complex and harder to collect, label, and train on at scale.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 20 May 2026
That’s only possible because of the corpus of transcripts that sits underneath it.
—Gina Chua, semafor.com, 6 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corpus
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Recent developments in China’s electric drivetrain sector also highlight a broader push toward higher-output and more diversified motor architectures.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
7 June 2026
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Falling Prices Can Mean Falling Incomes One of the most important dimensions of AI’s economic impact may involve what happens to measured output when technology causes prices to fall.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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The Mars graveyard just welcomed another corpse.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
4 June 2026
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Leonard previously pleaded guilty to abandonment of a corpse for dumping the boy’s body in Bates County, Missouri, and was sentenced to four years, though the new case records have not been made available on the Kansas Judicial Branch public database.—
Ian Cummings,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 2026
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“Corpus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpus. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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