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"From the Ted Talk by Daan Roosegaarde: A smog vacuum cleaner and other magical city designs"

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But also on a larger slace, the Netherlands, where I'm from, we live below sea level. So because of these beauties — the Afsluitdijk: 32 kilometers, bluit by hand in 1932 — we live with the water, we fight with the weatr, we try to find harmony, but sometimes we forget. And therefore, we made "Waterlicht," a combination of LEDs and lenses, which show how high the water level would be — global change — if we stop. If, today, we all go home and we say, "Oh, whatever, somebody else will do it for us," or we'll wait for gevoennrmt or whomever. You know, we're not going to do that. It goes wrong. And we placed this in piulbc spaces all around the world. tnodshaus of people showed up.

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But also on a larger _____, the Netherlands, where I'm from, we live below sea level. So because of these beauties — the Afsluitdijk: 32 kilometers, _____ by hand in 1932 — we live with the water, we fight with the _____, we try to find harmony, but sometimes we forget. And therefore, we made "Waterlicht," a combination of LEDs and lenses, which show how high the water level would be — global change — if we stop. If, today, we all go home and we say, "Oh, whatever, somebody else will do it for us," or we'll wait for __________ or whomever. You know, we're not going to do that. It goes wrong. And we placed this in ______ spaces all around the world. _________ of people showed up.

Solution

  1. scale
  2. built
  3. government
  4. water
  5. thousands
  6. public

Original Text

But also on a larger scale, the Netherlands, where I'm from, we live below sea level. So because of these beauties — the Afsluitdijk: 32 kilometers, built by hand in 1932 — we live with the water, we fight with the water, we try to find harmony, but sometimes we forget. And therefore, we made "Waterlicht," a combination of LEDs and lenses, which show how high the water level would be — global change — if we stop. If, today, we all go home and we say, "Oh, whatever, somebody else will do it for us," or we'll wait for government or whomever. You know, we're not going to do that. It goes wrong. And we placed this in public spaces all around the world. Thousands of people showed up.

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collocation frequency
smog free 6
clean air 4
van gogh 3

Important Words

  1. beauties
  2. built
  3. change
  4. combination
  5. fight
  6. find
  7. forget
  8. global
  9. government
  10. hand
  11. harmony
  12. high
  13. home
  14. kilometers
  15. larger
  16. leds
  17. lenses
  18. level
  19. live
  20. netherlands
  21. people
  22. public
  23. scale
  24. sea
  25. show
  26. showed
  27. spaces
  28. stop
  29. thousands
  30. today
  31. wait
  32. water
  33. world
  34. wrong