The most common negative terms were used more just after the UK exit

% of selected negative terms in headlines analysed in articles about Brexit

*Words: chaos, chaotic, furious(ly), fury, disaster, betrayal, crisis, war, warfare, warlike, battle, battlefield, threat, threaten, threatening, risk, fear, fearful, fearing. Percent is proportion of words analysed - stop and other irrelevant words excluded.

Chart: Press Gazette Source: Press Gazette analysis of Media Cloud data