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The academic corpus treats market timing like a kind of mirage - achievable in theory but not in practice.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corpus
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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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Mohn was arrested hours after the killing and charged with first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse and possession of an instrument of crime.—
Greg Norman,
FOXNews.com,
10 July 2025
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Prosecutors, however, painted a different picture of the defendant, who’s been charged with first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse and other offenses for the January 2024 killing of 68-year-old Michael F. Mohn in the family’s Levittown home.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
8 July 2025
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“Corpus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpus. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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