collocation
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Also, “hyperscalers and collocation companies are expected to invest about $7 trillion in data center infrastructure globally over the course of 2025 to 2030, with about $800 billion going towards electrical equipment and mechanical equipment.”
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
Linguists call it collocation: the likelihood of two words occurring together.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2016
It’s a work of journalism that never felt like journalism, a collocation of short quotes, a book that’s both joyful and angry, a book to get lost in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2016
Notably, the script used to analyze the texts relied on modified versions of four of the Natural Language Toolkit’s prepackaged modules: the word tokenizer, part of speech tagger, WordNetLemmatizer, and collocation finder.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 26, 2012
It was no new collocation, but to see it in black on white had the same effect as strong wine.
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
Nyâya-Vais`e@sika regarded all effects as being due to the assemblage of certain collocations which unconditionally, invariably, and immediately preceded these effects.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
Derivative laws commonly depend on collocations 39 3.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
In verse its products—rhythms which are often indistinguishable from prose rhythms and collocations of words to which sometimes is assignable no exact intellectual significance—are by now familiar to all who read.
From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell
The derivative law in this case depends not solely on laws, but on a collocation; and collocations cannot be reduced to any law.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
We piped with a greater facility and to a richer meed of recognition; which sounds as if we might have become, in these strange collocations, fairly offensive little prigs.
From A Small Boy and Others by Henry James
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