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From the Ted Talk by Neal Katyal: How to win an argument (at the US Supreme Court, or anywhere)

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Most of all, I realized, the only way you can truly lose an argument is by giving up. So I joined the lusaiwt by the US Congress ceignlnhlag President Trump's addition of a citizenship queositn to the census. A decision with huge implications. It was a really hard case. Most thought we would lose. But the thing is, we won. Five voets to four. The Supreme Court bilalascy said psdireent Trump and his cabinet's secretary had lied.

And now I've gotten back up and rnioejed the fight, and I hope each of you, in your own ways, does so too. I'm getting back up because I'm a bvelieer that good arguments do win out in the end. The arc of justice is long, and bends, often, slowly, but it bneds so long as we bend it. And I've realized the question is not how to win every argument. It's how to get back up when you do lose. Because in the long run, good arguments will win out. If you make a good argument, it has the power to outlive you, to stretch beyond your core, to reach those future minds.

Open Cloze


Most of all, I realized, the only way you can truly lose an argument is by giving up. So I joined the _______ by the US Congress ___________ President Trump's addition of a citizenship ________ to the census. A decision with huge implications. It was a really hard case. Most thought we would lose. But the thing is, we won. Five _____ to four. The Supreme Court _________ said _________ Trump and his cabinet's secretary had lied.

And now I've gotten back up and ________ the fight, and I hope each of you, in your own ways, does so too. I'm getting back up because I'm a ________ that good arguments do win out in the end. The arc of justice is long, and bends, often, slowly, but it _____ so long as we bend it. And I've realized the question is not how to win every argument. It's how to get back up when you do lose. Because in the long run, good arguments will win out. If you make a good argument, it has the power to outlive you, to stretch beyond your core, to reach those future minds.

Solution


  1. president
  2. challenging
  3. basically
  4. votes
  5. question
  6. rejoined
  7. bends
  8. lawsuit
  9. believer

Original Text


Most of all, I realized, the only way you can truly lose an argument is by giving up. So I joined the lawsuit by the US Congress challenging President Trump's addition of a citizenship question to the census. A decision with huge implications. It was a really hard case. Most thought we would lose. But the thing is, we won. Five votes to four. The Supreme Court basically said President Trump and his cabinet's secretary had lied.

And now I've gotten back up and rejoined the fight, and I hope each of you, in your own ways, does so too. I'm getting back up because I'm a believer that good arguments do win out in the end. The arc of justice is long, and bends, often, slowly, but it bends so long as we bend it. And I've realized the question is not how to win every argument. It's how to get back up when you do lose. Because in the long run, good arguments will win out. If you make a good argument, it has the power to outlive you, to stretch beyond your core, to reach those future minds.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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united states 4
travel ban 4
japanese american 4
american interment 3
geneva conventions 2
osama bin 2
solicitor general 2
top courtroom 2
courtroom lawyer 2
president trump 2
japanese interment 2
ann coulter 2
muslim ban 2
good arguments 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
japanese american interment 3
top courtroom lawyer 2

Important Words


  1. addition
  2. arc
  3. argument
  4. arguments
  5. basically
  6. believer
  7. bend
  8. bends
  9. case
  10. census
  11. challenging
  12. citizenship
  13. congress
  14. core
  15. court
  16. decision
  17. fight
  18. future
  19. giving
  20. good
  21. hard
  22. hope
  23. huge
  24. implications
  25. joined
  26. justice
  27. lawsuit
  28. lied
  29. long
  30. lose
  31. minds
  32. outlive
  33. power
  34. president
  35. question
  36. reach
  37. realized
  38. rejoined
  39. run
  40. secretary
  41. slowly
  42. stretch
  43. supreme
  44. thought
  45. trump
  46. votes
  47. ways
  48. win
  49. won