“the killing of”
Adoption curve: how many independent members of each party used this exact phrase, by day. Where at least three distinct offices can be grounded, peak-day source receipts appear below.
Democrats (solid line) Republicans (dashed line)
- First recorded in our corpus
- 2026-06-04 by Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Peak
- 4 members in one day · 2026-07-09
- Distinctiveness
- The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
- Data points
- 5 active days
Public Stage-1 phrase statistics begin 2025-01-03. Coverage for the same window is shown on the Methodology page. (The full-history “Alexandria” backfill to 2001 is staged for a later phase.)