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Once again I am posting stories concocted entirely by the Google NGram<\/a> site. I started each sentence with three or four words and an asterisk, as indicated by the underlines, and Google provided the next word by listing whatever most often came next following those exact words in the millions of books that it has scanned. I then repeated, dropping the first word and using the new word until a full sentence was achieved. Thus each word is a function of the preceding three or four words. Voila!<\/p>\n

The President might<\/u> have dissolved it by withdrawing the army and navy. His wife never<\/u> knew whether he was in the habit of doing so. Congress reacted by<\/u> passing the gas through a solution of potassium iodide and starch. Then the Supreme Court<\/u> ruled that the state had a duty to perform in the future as a result.<\/p>\n

Her beauty was<\/u> not of the same kind of thing as a matter of fact. It was even<\/u> more important than the other two groups. When he saw her<\/u>, he was so sorry for her. That’s why she<\/u>‘s so upset about the death of the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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