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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 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 Some common cancers have also seen an increase in diagnoses, including breast (female), prostate, pancreatic, uterine corpus, melanoma (female), liver (female) and oral cancers associated with the human papillomavirus, the report stated. Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025 Overall, the cancer mortality rate declined by 34% between 1991 and 2022 in the United States, but incidents rates continue to rise in common cancers like breast, pancreatic, uterine corpus, melanoma, liver and some oral cancers. Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for corpus
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  • Not content to let anything whither on the vine, Aston refreshed the Vantage sports car last May, bumping its mighty AMG V-8’s output to 656 hp.
    Jonny Lieberman, Robb Report, 12 May 2025
  • Once fully operational, its 2,000 MW output will link into the rest of the Sichuan region's hydropower grid.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
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  • Look down and see the five little roach corpses and six live roaches on the ground in the bar and the other three on the ground in kitchen storage.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
  • Every morning, prisoners lined up for inspection alongside the corpses of those who had died in the night heaped in a pile next to them.
    Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025

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“Corpus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpus. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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