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This page gives word cloud (i.e. visual) representations of the frequency of words in a given text. Enter the text in the box below. Use the buttons to filter out general words and/or academic words and/or subject-specific words.


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This word cloud is adapted from the one by Nan Xiao, which is a fork of the original created by Jason Davies.



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Author: Sheldon Smith    ‖    Last modified: 01 April 2024.

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