1. A software tool or program that searches a text or corpus of texts to find and display all occurrences of a particular word or phrase in context.
Usage: Primarily used in linguistics, language teaching, and computational text analysis.

Examples

• The linguist used a concordancer to analyze how the word 'run' appears in different contexts across the corpus.
• A concordancer helped the English teacher identify common collocations in student writing.
• The concordancer displayed every instance of the phrase 'climate change' alongside surrounding words.
• Researchers rely on concordancers to study language patterns in large databases of texts.
• The online concordancer made it easy to search for specific terms in historical documents.