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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
Noun
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The shop floor becomes a source of insight, not just output.—
Rahul Saluja,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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The simple fact is that far more workers are employed in positions that use steel as an input than those who manufacture steel as an output.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
Noun
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Aides played a propaganda video, and Trump held up a photograph of body bags which, according to Reuters, actually showed aid workers burying corpses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
1 June 2025
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When a young family member takes over the business, ethics go out the window as corpses are defiled, organs are sold, gold teeth are pulled, and people are maybe even murdered.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
30 May 2025
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“Corpus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpus. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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