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KWIC: every occurrence, in context

The standard corpus-linguistics view, served live.

KWIC stands for “Key Word In Context.” Pick a word or phrase, and the backend scans the full text of every document in the corpus and returns each occurrence centred in its own line: a slice of text to the left, the keyword highlighted, a slice to the right. It is the first view a corpus linguist reaches for when a frequency count alone is not enough.

Try the suggestions below, or type your own. Each row shows the keyword in roughly eighty characters of surrounding context, with the source document linked on Founders Online or the Folger. Pair this with the full-corpus search if you want phrase-level filtering with ranked snippets instead of every-occurrence concordance lines.