| always | 5 | degree |
| across all fronts | 4 | other |
| intrinsically | 2 | degree |
| war → be → messy | 53 |
| war → be → messy business | 5 |
| war → become → messy | 4 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.821 | 0.157 | 0.022 |
| Raw frequency | 62 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.472 |
| Modifier score | 1.000 |
| Perplexity | 347.494 |