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

From the days of Grecian atomism men have attempted to show that all change in the Universe is ultimately reducible to changes of place, order, spatial arrangement and collocation, of those hypothetical atomic factors.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter