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as in output
the complete works of an author Jane Austen's corpus is modest in number but magnificent in achievement

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as in corpse
a dead body international conventions requiring that the corpus of the enemy combatant be treated with respect and dignity

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Recent Examples of corpus The deal was meant to resolve habeas corpus and Racial Justice Act petitions Chatman filed this year, alleging his trial was plagued by racial bias and misconduct. Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2025 Maxwell, who was transferred from Florida to Federal Prison Camp Bryan earlier this year after agreeing to be interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, will file a habeas corpus petition soon, her lawyer David Oscar Markus wrote to a federal judge. Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 4 Dec. 2025 Corporate clients often expect high-quality translation of internal jargon that behaves like a private dialect; Romansh, with its sparse training corpus and multiple variants, was a real-world version of that puzzle. Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025 The agent utilizes natural language interactions across TIME's entire digital content corpus to drive reader engagement. Time Staff, Time, 10 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for corpus
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  • In production form, Longbow expects far lower outputs.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Tourism and recreation alone account for 47% of the economic output—almost 10 times the economic benefit of offshore oil drilling, Assemblymember Dawn Addis, D-Morro Bay, said.
    Chaewon Chung Updated January 6, Sacbee.com, 7 Jan. 2026
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  • Israel wiped out entire cities with nothing left but an abundance of rubble mixed with thousands of corpses stuck underneath.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • And now one of those corpses could soon be Evelyn’s.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2025

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“Corpus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpus. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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