👤 David Astle

5 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
5
2026-09-18 – 2026-10-30
Claims per article
29
145 extracted in total
Hedged claims
4%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
3,942
characters
Writes for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Entertainment
40%
Other
20%
Science
20%
Technology
20%
Most-tagged topics
AmericaAFLAgeBelgianBirrarungCanberraFinnishFrench

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More from this journalist

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2026-10-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Science
This single word will leave you breathless – literally
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Other
Embrace hope, all ye who enter here: In 2026, this word is more alive than ever
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Entertainment
Flong time no see: my adventures with a daily dictionary dip
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Technology
Language in the age of AI: Whimsymaxxing the apocalypse
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Entertainment
Decked out: How card games shuffled the everyday language of sports
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Decked out: How card games shuffled the everyday language of sports
🔮 Despite that, any new deal will leave some citizens in the lurch, a phrase from cribbage. assertive
2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Language in the age of AI: Whimsymaxxing the apocalypse
🔮 Yet I predict a few maxxes will make the haul into 2027, even if serving as rage bait, where editing now answers to textmaxxing, or a swim session is lapmaxxing, just to rankle the purists. assertive
2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Flong time no see: my adventures with a daily dictionary dip
🔮 Old-time printers will know flong as a mould made from wet pulp, shaped by a metal stereotype then pressed upon the page. assertive
2026-10-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Embrace hope, all ye who enter here: In 2026, this word is more alive than ever
🔮 There’s a wishfulness, or maybe wishy-washiness, since hope doesn’t seem to lift a finger. assertive
2026-10-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald
This single word will leave you breathless – literally
🔮 Titin may seem one more silhouette on the page, until the word performs its own Tardis trick, elasticising outward to reveal its alter ego of methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanylprolylthreonylphenylalanylthreonylglutaminylprolyletc-etc. assertive
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