How to Use corpus in a Sentence

corpus

noun
  • Jane Austen's corpus is modest in number but magnificent in achievement.
  • Better to think of the corpus as the product of a guild, with Hildegard at its head.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • By rejoicing in the rich history of his corpus and using it to guide our own work.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Then, corpus luteum makes hormones to get your next egg ready for your next menstrual cycle.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 26 July 2017
  • Letter by letter, the neural net, learning from its corpus, would eke out a new sentence.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 6 Oct. 2018
  • The idea is to start with a corpus of text and then, for each word, to analyze those words that appear before and after it.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Dozens of affidavits were contained within the corpus of the lawsuit.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Thirty years ago, the shareholders did not get their dividends for two years and that went into the corpus.
    — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Ironically, firms that claim to have no money even to pay their staff, too, have made huge donations to this corpus.
    — Vatsal Bhandari, Quartz India, 6 May 2020
  • But the same critical spirit could be applied to their own corpus of theology and law.
    — The Economist, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Musical sleuths have leaned on Bach’s corpus to reconstruct the work ever since.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The classics corpus is full of meditations on the qualities that make for a good leader.
    — The Economist, 22 June 2019
  • Every part of the car, and every corner of the driver’s corpus, was covered with corporate touts.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Immersion in the corpus provides a ground-level view of the ways Facebook causes harm.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The result has been a flood of habeas-corpus petitions filed in federal courts—more than fifteen thousand in the past two months alone.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
  • There is currently a petition for a writ of habeas corpus calling for the airport to release the two men from custody.
    — Emma Stefansky, The Hive, 28 Jan. 2017
  • The new study also showed rates of uterine corpus cancer, which affects the uterus's lining, have been rising at the same pace as breast cancer.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Even as a corpus of slave narratives circulated, much of the story of what happened to black bodies on these shores was yet to be told.
    — Emily Bernard, The New Republic, 19 June 2018
  • That’s only possible because of the corpus of transcripts that sits underneath it.
    — Gina Chua, semafor.com, 6 May 2026
  • The attorneys have sought his release by filing a habeas corpus petition in federal court.
    — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Especially with the corpus of cash its digital arm Jio Platforms has amassed just this year.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The corpus of scientific knowledge is now so large that small teams are increasingly unlikely to make a dent.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The software can pull sentences and quotes to support its position from a corpus of hundreds of millions of documents.
    — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 19 June 2018
  • Trillions of words, sitting in plain sight, a corpus humanity spent decades writing without meaning to.
    — Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Aggressive pounding of the meat stick can cause a tear to the tunica albuginea which opens up the corpus cavernosa and lets all that blood out.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 2 Aug. 2022
  • By the 1920s nine of the seventy-six signs that appeared more than once in the small corpus had been tentatively read.
    — Josephine Quinn, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The main requirement is that the training corpus be diverse enough to include outputs from a wide range of AI systems.
    — Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The main requirement is that the training corpus be diverse enough to include outputs from a wide range of AI systems.
    — Ambuj Tewari, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The size and breadth of these corpora feed into the ability of foundation models to serve multiple downstream tasks.
    — Jenna Wiens, STAT, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The rabbit hole that transports Alice to Wonderland might as well be a birth canal concealed within the vast corpus of the earth.
    — Longreads, 27 Mar. 2020

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