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Table 1.

The 10 most frequent verbs in RCT abstracts

# Occurences Verb Cumulative frequency
1 1238 reduce 0.036
2 1163 improve 0.070
3 1056 suggest 0.100
4 963 increase 0.129
5 888 use 0.155
6 808 associate 0.178
7 742 compare 0.200
8 733 show 0.221
9 718 provide 0.242
10 593 appear 0.260