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This explorer maps how word meanings shift over time, and what may have caused each shift.
A word's arc (for example neutral then negative) shows whether its tone improved (amelioration) or worsened (pejoration).
Each causal hypothesis is rated by how strong its evidence is, weakest to strongest: