corpora

Definition of corporanext
plural of corpus
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as in outputs
the complete works of an author Jane Austen's corpus is modest in number but magnificent in achievement

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

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Noun
  • Obscuring part of a model’s chain-of-thought reasoning can also make the model harder to distill—a method where a smaller model is trained on the outputs of a larger model.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Agencies should train juniors to question AI’s outputs, connect insights across data and turn analysis into meaningful actions and business outcomes.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Homecoming aside, there’s still the Trawler to worry about, a fact we’re reminded of when another victim turns up on a playground, this time with a pentagram carved into his back and fish corpses shoved into his wounds.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
  • This is not the first time that objects – and even corpses – have been uncovered due to melting ice.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The practice of cutting fins off live sharks and throwing the carcasses back into the sea is banned in much of the Pacific Ocean, but persists due to demand in East and Southeast Asia.
    CBS News, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Though researchers have observed evidence of humans hunting large megafauna in later periods, the discovery suggests that early humans processed elephant carcasses more systematically.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Ospreay walked through relics from the past and present backstage, including Michael Oku, Swerve Strickland, Ricochet, Kyle Fletcher, his wife Alex Windsor and finally Jon Moxley, who gave Ospreay the flag of London.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Simonian is believed to have smuggled Egyptian relics to institutions that include the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre Abu Dhabi for a collective sum of $64 million.
    News Desk, Artforum, 26 Aug. 2026
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“Corpora.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpora. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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