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Text corpora such as the Brown Corpus are enormous collections of electronically stored texts that can be used for empirical testing of hypotheses regarding the frequency of typical word usage. For example, a linguist who assumes that the word "know" appears quite often in written English could _____ that assumption with data from a corpus: "know" is the eighth most commonly used verb.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
substantiate
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entail
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transpose
C
refute
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