| over time | 12 | temporal |
| sometimes | 2 | temporal |
| quickly | 2 | manner |
| needle → be → dull | 32 |
| needle → become → dull | 25 |
| needle → get → dull | 7 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.713 | 0.268 | 0.018 |
| Raw frequency | 64 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.474 |
| Modifier score | 0.600 |
| Perplexity | 389.171 |