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
Persis was forced to smile at such a collocation.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
HE jingling rhymes of Dr. Watts Excite the reader's just impatience, He wearies of Sir Walter Scott's Melodious verbal collocations, And with advancing years he learns To love the simpler style of Burns.
From More Misrepresentative Men by Harry Graham
But the strict observance of position is in effect the strict avoidance of unclassical collocations of syllables: it is almost wholly negative.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
At least one of these collocations of words which has escaped from the minds of grown people still holds a place among the boys of this country.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
But in any case it is the preceding collocations that combine to produce the effect jointly.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
Her connection with Apollo arose possibly from a collocation of her cult with his in some place; in such collocations the goddess would become, in mythological constructions, the mother, sister, or wife of the god.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
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