Google's N-Gram Viewer is great for tracking words and phrases over time.
As Vinteuil's music is played at intervals through the cycle of novels, the Verdurins spew sophisticated platitudes, Swann keeps trying to pin down the significance of five fugitive notes, and the narrator savors the gradual evolution of phrases over time.
Among those transformative uses is Google's cool Ngram viewer, which lets you trace the use of words and phrases over time.
Kentucky recently eliminated the word "evolution" from its curriculum, substituting the phrase "change over time".
It fits into a familiar frame of persecution, and when such a phrase, repeated over time, enters the everyday lexicon, it biases the debate in favor of conservatives.
Last October, state officials in Kentucky eliminated the word "evolution" but not the scientific theory from the school curriculum, substituting the phrase "change over time".
They identified the thousand most popular phrases in the material and examined how those phrases spread over time via news agencies, newspapers, television and blogs.
There is nothing surreptitious about it — it's all part of the mundane work that lexicographers do to keep track of how words and phrases develop over time, in order to shape and revise their entries.
Today "sick" can also mean "amazing". Words and phrases evolve over time -- especially in the business world.
