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How do you search for nouns that contain the sequence of letters sb in the Corpus of Contemporary American English?
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This is fairly straightforward and should be captured by the help pages on the COCA site:
*sb*.[n*]
I created a presentation that explains the basics of COCA searching (slides 26 - 45). There's also a video on YouTube of a presentation I gave at a teacher's conference (explanation starts here).
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