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
The Pulpit and the Press—the past and the present, the rising and the waning power, would be to some minds the first idea suggested by such a collocation of terms.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
The laws of clash, the effects of distance upon attraction and repulsion, all seem arbitrary collocations of data.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
Now, the possibility of the occurrence of counteracting causes which do not arise from any of the conditions involved in the law itself depends on the original collocations.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart
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 Bell, Clive
The meaning of such an evolution is this, that all the changes and modifications in the shape of the evolving collocations of gu@na reals take place within the body of the prak@rti.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
Grimm gives some examples in which he thinks that the ideas, and their collocations in the story, can only have originally occurred to one mind, once for all.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
