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sentences that state something as happening or true
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0 of 23 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Politics
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
What’s bigger and more devastating than a tsunami?
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What → ’ → tsunami
Whatever it is, it hit Donald Trump and the Republican Party Tuesday.
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it → hit → Trump
Wednesday dawned on a transformed United States—indeed, a very different world.
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Wednesday → dawn → States
Why did this happen?
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this → happen → ?
It’s overdetermined, probably.
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It → ’ → ?
Democrats benefited from every factor you can name, from Trump’s insistence that his party run weak candidates for the Senate in key states to higher fuel prices stemming from the war with Iran he started.
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he → benefit → Iran
But that doesn’t quite capture the gestalt of an election in which the polls were wrong again—this time because they badly underestimated the Democratic margin, rather than, as in previous years, the latent strength of GOP voters who don’t answer surveys.
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who → capture → surveys
This landslide—in which Democrats won back both the House and the Senate by sweeping margins—wasn’t just a rebuke of Trump.
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Democrats → win → Trump
Whether because 2024 Trump voters turned against him, or just sat this one out, his vaunted “base” all but evaporated.
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base → turn → one
His opponents, by contrast, were energized.
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opponents → energize → contrast
Preliminary exit polls showed that 62 percent of voters disapproved of his performance as president, 53 percent “strongly.”
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percent → show → president
Most damning, 62 percent said they think their president puts his own interests ahead of the country’s.
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president → say → country
Before the election, two strategies were being debated among Democrats: expand the party by moving to the center, or mobilize the base by doubling down on progressive policies.
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strategies → debate → policies
Turns out neither was proven wrong or right.
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neither → turn → ?
All it took to win was running against Trump.
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it → take → Trump
These midterms had the feel of a country rising up and saying “enough.”
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midterms → have → enough
People were fed up with high gas and grocery costs, yes.
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People → feed → costs
The allies insulted and snubbed.
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allies → insult → ?
The dictators embraced.
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dictators → embrace → ?
The people gunned down because untrained ICE agents panicked.
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agents → gun → ?
Half the White House reduced to rubble and a pharaonic victory arch overshadowing Arlington National Cemetery.
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arch → reduce → Cemetery
F-bombing Democrats take note: Voters seem to have had their fill of indecency masquerading as “authenticity.”
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Voters → bomb → authenticity
Yesterday’s blue tide swept away political conventional wisdom—right and left.
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tide → sweep → wisdom
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