Drivers Trapped As Flash Floods Submerge Milwaukee Streets | Weather.com
The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office advised drivers to avoid streets in southeast Wisconsin due to flash flooding. Numerous motorists required rescue after their vehicles became trapped in rising waters.
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Minor concerns. Some persuasive language detected, but largely factual.
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Loaded Language
80% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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2 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.
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“The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office begged drivers to stay off the streets in southeast Wisconsin Wednesday night.”
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One web search result from AOL explicitly mentions that the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office posted online to urge people not to drive in southeast Wisconsin due to floodwaters. However, there is only one news source providing this specific information, and other search results are unrelated (crime reports, winter storms, or general Wikipedia entries).
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— The 2024 Wisconsin fall general election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on November 5, 2024. One of Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seats and all of Wisconsin's eight seats in the U.S. House of Repre…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Wisconsin_elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Wisconsin_elections
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— David Alexander Clarke Jr. (born August 21, 1956) is an American former law enforcement official who served as Sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, from 2002 to 2017.
In 2002, Clarke was appointed …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Clarke_(sheriff)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Clarke_(sheriff)
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— The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office is the principal law enforcement agency that serves Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It provides law enforcement services for the county's freeways and outlying lette…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_County_Sheriff's_Off…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_County_Sheriff's_Off…
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“Dozens of drivers had to be rescued after their cars, trucks and minivans got stuck in rising floodwaters.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists entirely of dictionary definitions for the word 'dozens' and contains no factual reporting or data regarding vehicle rescues in floodwaters in the Milwaukee area.
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— DOZENS definition: (usually foll by of) a lot See examples of dozens used in a sentence.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dozens
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dozens
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— n. 1. pl. dozen Abbr. doz. or dz. A set of 12. 2. dozens An indefinite, large number: dozens of errands to run.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/dozens
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/dozens
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— In conversation, you can use dozens to emphasize that you are talking about a very large number of things. Dozens is followed by of when it is used in front of a noun.
https://www.wordreference.com/englishusage/dozens
https://www.wordreference.com/englishusage/dozens
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