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[kawr-puhs] / ˈkɔr pəs /


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California’s district judges were overrun with emergency petitions for writs of habeas corpus, a legal maneuver rarely used outside death row appeals.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Stern: Habeas corpus traces back to 1215 and England’s Magna Carta.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Habeas corpus is a basic legal principle that protects people from being unlawfully detained and the petition allows immigrants like Wilber to challenge the legality of their detention.

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

Inside the brain, you can see die different lobes of the cortex; the corpus callosum, which joins the two hemispheres; the cerebellum at the back of the head; and the brain stem.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

"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

A new legal tool Using corpora to answer legal questions, a strategy often referred to as legal corpus linguistics, has grown increasingly popular in some legal circles within the past decade.

From The Verge Jun. 7, 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

Whereas it’s now easy to assemble written-text corpora and open a window on how language functions in a particular environment, doing so for spoken language has always been far harder.

From The Guardian Feb. 23, 2018

His discoveries, co-ordinated and arranged in vast corpora inscriptionum, stand now alongside Herodotus or Livy, furnishing a basis for their criticism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

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

“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

Again, you might think news related corpuses could constitute the most abundant trove of information to be fed into the Knowledge Graph.

From The Guardian Nov. 5, 2012

Our habis corpuses wich Linkin took away from us hevn’t bin returned, and we are obleeged to git along ez best we kin without em.

From "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. by Thomas Nast




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