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Obama's Inaugural Word Cloud Is Pretty Bossy

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 1.22.2013 9:44 AM

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Good morning and welcome to Obama's America: The Revenge. Here's a word cloud of his 2013 inaugural address, with the top 100 words used in the speech. The size of the word indicates its frequency of use: 

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Katherine Mangu-Ward is editor in chief of Reason.

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