| sharply | 6 | degree |
| despite a growing elderly population | 5 | other |
| substantially | 3 | degree |
| spending → be → cut | 95 |
| spending → be → slashed | 4 |
| spending → be → trimmed | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.350 | 0.538 | 0.112 |
| Raw frequency | 102 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.918 |
| Modifier score | 0.167 |
| Perplexity | 83.043 |