This Week In Words

ByNicola

This week I devoted some time to updating my CV, so I thought I’d see how that turned out on Wordle.

This is a word cloud generated by the website Wordle. It consists of a mixture of dozens of words chosen from text that had been inserted into the app based on words from my CV.

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