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The default key term list builds on The New York Times' list of words flagged across federal agency websites (NYT, March 7, 2025), plus FedInt engine findings. Upload or paste your own to override it. Download a sample keywords.txt to test.
Load a key term list and one or more .docx files, then Generate.
How many of the currently-preferred key terms your draft already includes. Higher means the draft uses more of the rising vocabulary.
Key federal terms over time: how often each appears in federal documents, plus a then-versus-now split into rising, falling, and retired. Generated by the FedInt engine from federal sources.
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Explore Key term momentum over time
How often each tracked word appears in Federal Register documents, month by month. Coverage starts in 1994, the earliest Federal Register data available in machine-readable form, and runs to now. It opens on all time; change the From/To range or pick an administration to focus. Choose which key terms to plot, or check rows in the table. A rising line means the government is using that word more; a falling line means less.
Momentum
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Then vs now What the government started and stopped saying
This compares an earlier stretch of federal documents against a recent one and sorts the vocabulary three ways. Rising: words appearing much more now. Falling: words appearing less often. Retired: words that were common before and have all but vanished. It shows which language the government currently favors and which has faded.
How many key terms moved each way
For every flagged word, the safer alternatives you can use instead. The list comes from The New York Times' reporting on words drawing federal scrutiny.
Suggested alternatives Fading words and rising alternatives
Words that are fading from federal documents, each paired with the rising words you could use instead. These pairings are drawn from frequency alone; a full analysis run produces evidence-backed, curated matches.
Every flagged word and its safer alternatives
The full New York Times list of words drawing federal scrutiny, each paired with substitutes you can use instead.
The flagged vocabulary grouped into themes, plus the dominant terms appearing in federal documents now.
Themes Named clusters
Related key terms grouped into themes, so you can see the shift as topics (for example "AI & Innovation" or "Governance & Stewardship") rather than one word at a time.
Key terms per theme
Dominant key terms For the selected timeframe
The rising vocabulary spelled out. The words appearing most in current federal documents, with why each one recurs and which agencies use it.
Each award-making agency's tracked vocabulary, split into flagged terms (the NYT-flagged words drawing scrutiny) and safer alternatives to use instead. Pick a window; an up arrow means the agency used the term more toward the end of it, a down arrow less. A ⊘ on a flagged term means most of its mentions are ban language, so a rising arrow there is rising prohibition, not adoption; a ~ marks a mixed signal. A marks a term on the NYT's published list (the rest were surfaced by the engine). Frequency-derived from federal funding and rulemaking text, so smaller agencies show thinner signal.
No agency data found. Run fedint backfill-agency to generate it.