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
But nothing, no collocation of invented circumstances seemed capable of baffling Miss Fisher.
From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree
Much more rarely than the sciences has it recourse to a technical vocabulary, being content to express itself in ordinary words though using them and their collocations with a careful delicacy and painstaking adroitness.
From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin
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 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
The second subdivision of the physical school, the Mechanical 290 or Atomist theorists, attempted the explanation of the universe by analogies derived from mechanical collocations, arrangements, and movements.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
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 William James
