You won’t find these rules in a standard dictionary. And even AI makes hilarious mistakes with them.
Here is the reality check:
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An "online verified" dictionary does not rely on the author’s intuition. It uses a live corpus (like the 650-million-word Macmillan English Corpus or Sketch Engine). When you look up a word, the database has verified that the collocation appears in at least 10-20 recent, high-quality sources. If a combination of words does not appear in the corpus, the dictionary marks it as "unverified" or "rare." You won’t find these rules in a standard dictionary