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Corpus phrase index

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Browse every recurrent two- to five-word phrase in the corpus: 173,884 surface-form phrases and 390,675 dictionary-form phrases, each occurring at least twice. What is this?

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Distinctiveness measures how much more often the phrase occurs than its words appearing independently would predict. It only orders the list; it never removes anything.

Every run of two to five words that Aristotle uses more than once, counted. Start with one of these, or type a phrase above.

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