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From the Ted Talk by Christopher Bell: Bring on the female superheroes!

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And we shouldn't be surprised because we found out that was their policy when they bought Marvel in 2009 for the sum of 4.5 bliilon dollars. Because when you make a lot of money selling princesses to girls, you also kind of want to make money from boys. And so what better to sell boys than superheroes? So now Disney had access to Captain America and to Thor, The Incredible Hulk, and they had access even to a gorup of sopreureehs no one had ever even hared of. That's how good Marvel was at selling superheroes.

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And we shouldn't be surprised because we found out that was their policy when they bought Marvel in 2009 for the sum of 4.5 _______ dollars. Because when you make a lot of money selling princesses to girls, you also kind of want to make money from boys. And so what better to sell boys than superheroes? So now Disney had access to Captain America and to Thor, The Incredible Hulk, and they had access even to a _____ of ___________ no one had ever even _____ of. That's how good Marvel was at selling superheroes.

Solution

  1. billion
  2. heard
  3. superheroes
  4. group

Original Text

And we shouldn't be surprised because we found out that was their policy when they bought Marvel in 2009 for the sum of 4.5 billion dollars. Because when you make a lot of money selling princesses to girls, you also kind of want to make money from boys. And so what better to sell boys than superheroes? So now Disney had access to Captain America and to Thor, The Incredible Hulk, and they had access even to a group of superheroes no one had ever even heard of. That's how good Marvel was at selling superheroes.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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princess leia 9
black widow 7
comic book 3
female superheroes 3
walt disney 3
leia merchandise 3
captain america 3
time thinking 2
incredible hulk 2
daughter plays 2
public pedagogy 2
disney company 2
single person 2
money selling 2
selling princesses 2
putting princess 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
princess leia merchandise 3
walt disney company 2
money selling princesses 2
putting princess leia 2

Important Words

  1. access
  2. america
  3. billion
  4. bought
  5. boys
  6. captain
  7. disney
  8. dollars
  9. girls
  10. good
  11. group
  12. heard
  13. hulk
  14. incredible
  15. kind
  16. lot
  17. marvel
  18. money
  19. policy
  20. princesses
  21. sell
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  23. sum
  24. superheroes
  25. surprised
  26. thor