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A concordancer allows the search of a database of language (corpus) for the study of linguistics.
Concordancers vary in capability, but usually provide statistics for frequency of words and phrases. The results provide you with phrases or sentences that contain the word or phrase centred and highlighted.
Googlefight is one which is simple to use, although it searches the whole internet for uses, as opposed to a specific sample of language. This may provide inaccurate results as the uses on the internet are not always correct.
So... the concordancer is only as good as the database that it is searching!
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