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From the Ted Talk by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi: An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter

Unscramble the Blue Letters

OT: So I've been lnnaerig a great deal about interdependence. I've been learning about how to trust your team. I've come up with this new mantra after coming back from a three-month sabbatical, which is rare for black women to take who are in ldraihseep, but I felt it was really important for my leadership and for my team to also practice stepping back as well as also sometimes stepping in. And what I learned in this process was that we need to acknowledge that different people contribute different strengths, and that in order for our entire team to flourish, we have to allow them to share and allow them to shine. And so during my sabcaatibl with the organization that I also work with, I saw our team rise up in my anscebe. They were able to launch new programs, frnsaiude. And when I came back, I had to give them a lot of gratitude and praise because they showed me that they truly had my back and that they truly had their own backs.

Open Cloze

OT: So I've been ________ a great deal about interdependence. I've been learning about how to trust your team. I've come up with this new mantra after coming back from a three-month sabbatical, which is rare for black women to take who are in __________, but I felt it was really important for my leadership and for my team to also practice stepping back as well as also sometimes stepping in. And what I learned in this process was that we need to acknowledge that different people contribute different strengths, and that in order for our entire team to flourish, we have to allow them to share and allow them to shine. And so during my __________ with the organization that I also work with, I saw our team rise up in my _______. They were able to launch new programs, _________. And when I came back, I had to give them a lot of gratitude and praise because they showed me that they truly had my back and that they truly had their own backs.

Solution

  1. fundraise
  2. learning
  3. leadership
  4. sabbatical
  5. absence

Original Text

OT: So I've been learning a great deal about interdependence. I've been learning about how to trust your team. I've come up with this new mantra after coming back from a three-month sabbatical, which is rare for black women to take who are in leadership, but I felt it was really important for my leadership and for my team to also practice stepping back as well as also sometimes stepping in. And what I learned in this process was that we need to acknowledge that different people contribute different strengths, and that in order for our entire team to flourish, we have to allow them to share and allow them to shine. And so during my sabbatical with the organization that I also work with, I saw our team rise up in my absence. They were able to launch new programs, fundraise. And when I came back, I had to give them a lot of gratitude and praise because they showed me that they truly had my back and that they truly had their own backs.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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black lives 8
black people 7
lives matter 6
older people 3
antiblack racism 2
united states 2
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white folks 2
white women 2
black women 2
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ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
black lives matter 5

Important Words

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