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 required an artful and elaborate collocation of words, and its construction is more forced and artificial than that of most other tongues.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John