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The thundering poet termed the result uninspired and banal, so the other professor went into Dickinson’s 1,800-poem corpus, retrieved an obscure quatrain and presented it to the poet, who called the result banal and uninspired.
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David Galef, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
In that regard, Renaissance architects were much closer in spirit to Renaissance writers than to Renaissance painters: Renaissance writers, too, tried to revive a classical language—mainly Cicero’s Latin—by imitating a corpus of extant ancient sources.
—Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
In the right light, the social network for professionals is a lavish psychoanalytic corpus, bursting with naked ambition, inspiration, desperation, status-seeking, spiritual yearning, brownnosing, name-dropping, corporate shilling, and self-promotion.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Foreign Trusts And The Transfer Tax If a covered gift or covered bequest is made to a foreign trust, the Section 2801 tax applies to any distribution to a U.S. recipient from that trust, whether of income or corpus.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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David Galef, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
In that regard, Renaissance architects were much closer in spirit to Renaissance writers than to Renaissance painters: Renaissance writers, too, tried to revive a classical language—mainly Cicero’s Latin—by imitating a corpus of extant ancient sources.
—Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
In the right light, the social network for professionals is a lavish psychoanalytic corpus, bursting with naked ambition, inspiration, desperation, status-seeking, spiritual yearning, brownnosing, name-dropping, corporate shilling, and self-promotion.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Foreign Trusts And The Transfer Tax If a covered gift or covered bequest is made to a foreign trust, the Section 2801 tax applies to any distribution to a U.S. recipient from that trust, whether of income or corpus.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corpus
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This can lead to outputs that are logically sound within its operational parameters but problematic when viewed through a human ethical lens.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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This can lead to biased or incorrect outputs, as these tools might unintentionally introduce inaccuracies or even errors in critical business processes, raising data integrity concerns across departments.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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Emmit Yarbrough, 58, pleaded guilty in March to arson, a Level 4 felony, and abuse of a corpse, a Level 6 felony.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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Schneider has been charged with kidnapping leading to death, concealment of a corpse and endangering the integrity of the corpse, per The Telegraph; Caboubassy and Benrakia were charged with complicity.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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“Corpus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpus. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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