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The word “amaze” occurs 15 times in Project Hail Mary — and every single occurrence is spoken by Rocky.
It first appears in Chapter 14, when Rocky coins the word as his own expression of wonder. It peaks in Chapter 17, which accounts for more than half the occurrences (8 times). It then appears once each in Chapters 19, 22, 24, and 29.
Here's a visualization of the distribution across all sections and chapters of the book.
Each coloured bar represents a section and is colour-coded for Earth sections (green) and Space sections (purple).
The grey bars represent the chapters, which are marked with ticks and numbers.
The y-axis is the relative frequency, i.e. the proportion of tokens in that section (or chapter) that match (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).
Amaze!
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