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[kawr-puhs] / ˈkɔr pəs /


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A habeas corpus hearing is scheduled for Wednesday in San Antonio.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

The day of The Times’ article publication, the public defenders office helped the family file a habeas corpus petition on behalf of Wilber.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Put simply, a habeas corpus petition is a written request from an inmate to a court challenging the lawfulness of their government detention.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

Even in the authors’ account, aides sometimes seem to let an idea be floated and then disappear or, as in the case of Mr. Miller’s alleged contempt for habeas corpus, push back strongly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

He had also bought a gift for Henry: a corpus of Mycenaean inscriptions from Knossos.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

"They are trained on a corpora of books, articles and websites, even the entirety of English Wikipedia, but these texts rarely feature emoji."

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2022

“The district court’s evaluation of corpora is fatally flawed,” they wrote — and is “opaque and unreproducible.”

From The Verge ● Jun. 7, 2022

Publishers might strike licensing deals, of course, making their text available to large firms for inclusion in their corpora.

From Scientific American ● May 4, 2022

But computers and digital corpora make this far faster today: Ben Blatt adopted these techniques for many clever experiments in “Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve”, his book from 2017.

From Economist ● Mar. 8, 2018

But there is considerable difference between the corpora lutea of non-pregnant and pregnant women.

From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by William J. Robinson

Since the narrative of searching for the grail shows up in so many corpuses of data, the algorithm uses that a lot, too — the AI loves cliches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

Often, these under-served languages do not have easily accessible corpuses of written text that are needed to train AI systems or sometimes have no standardized writing system at all.

From The Verge ● Feb. 23, 2022

For example, a word-vector algorithm will crawl huge corpuses of text such as Amazon product reviews or news articles, and learn from context which words are similar.

From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2018

“What makes machine learning different from regular programming is you look at corpuses of data to make guesses about things,” says Paul Lambert, a product manager for Gmail.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2018

Then came sheer erudition—the nature of chemical elements, stars in their courses, kings of England with their Magna Chartas and habeas corpuses.

From The Devil's Garden by W. B. Maxwell




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