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as in output
the complete works of an author Jane Austen's corpus is modest in number but magnificent in achievement

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as in corpse
a dead body international conventions requiring that the corpus of the enemy combatant be treated with respect and dignity

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Recent Examples of corpus Black people have a death rate that’s twice as high as White people’s for prostate, stomach and uterine corpus cancers, according to the report. Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025 The new study also showed rates of uterine corpus cancer, which affects the uterus's lining, have been rising at the same pace as breast cancer. Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025 The two worlds of his corpus, then, ought not to be understood as an absolute and necessary dichotomy between the sensory and the body, on the one hand, and the spiritual and moral, on the other. Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024 The exhibition lays claim to the body as the superintending conceit of Warhol’s corpus—an argument often strained by inclusions here of the Hammer & Sickle (1976) works or allusions to the film Sleep (1964). Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for corpus 

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“Corpus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpus. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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