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2013 La Défense attack
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2015. Today the opening carries none. 14 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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The opening as it read in 2015
2013, French soldier Cédric Cordier was attacked and stabbed by a man in the Paris suburb of La Défense in what has been described as a terrorist attack.1 The attack occurred three days in the aftermath of the murder of a British soldier in Woolwich , London, which may have inspired a copycat attack . The New York Times . "Woolwich copycat attack: French police study CCTV footage in manhunt for soldier's attacker" .2
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Today
“terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 14. Read the current article and compare.
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| terror | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Then
ttacked and stabbed by a man in the paris suburb of la défense in what has been described as a terrorist attack
Now
ttacked and stabbed in the paris suburb of la défense by a man who was later ruled by a court not to be crimina
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