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Copy a random selection of words to the clipboard each second. Used to get random text for testing
$words = @("as","I","his","that","he","was","for","on","are","with","they","be","at","one","have","this","from","by","hot","word",
"but","what","some","is","it","you","or","had","the","of","to","and","a","in","we","can","out","other","were","which","do","their",
"time","if","will","how","said","an","each","tell","does","set","three","want","air","well","also","play","small","end","put","home",
"read","hand","port","large","spell","add","even","land","here","must","big","high","such","follow","act","why","ask","men","change","went",
"light","kind","off","need","house","picture","try","us","again","animal","point","mother","world","near","build","self","earth",
"father","any","new","work","part","take","get","place","made","live","where","after","back","little","only","round","man","year",
"came","show","every","good","me","give","our","under","name","very","through","just","form","sentence","great","think","say","help",
"low","line","differ","turn","cause","much","mean","before","move","right","boy","old","too","same","she","all","there","when","up",
"use","your","way","about","many","then","them","write","would","like","so","these","her","long","make","thing","see","him","two","has",
"look","more","day","could","go","come","did","number","sound","no","most","people","my","over","know","water","than","call","first","who",
"may","down","side","been","now","find","head","stand","own","page","should","country","found","answer","school","grow","study",
"still","learn","plant","cover","food","sun","four","between","state","keep","eye","never","last","let","thought","city","tree","cross",
"farm","hard","start","might","story","saw","far","sea","draw","left","late","run","don’t","while","press","close","night","real","life",
"few","north","book","carry","took","science","eat","room","friend","began","idea","fish","mountain","stop","once","base","hear","horse",
"cut","sure","watch","color","face","wood","main","open","seem","together","next","white","children","begin","got","walk","example",
"ease","paper","group","always","music","those","both","mark","often","letter","until","mile","river","car","feet","care","second","enough",
"plain","girl","usual","young","ready","above","ever","red","list","though","feel","talk","bird","soon","body","dog","family","direct",
"pose","leave","song","measure","door","product","black","short","numeral","class","wind","question","happen","complete","ship","area","half",
"rock","order","fire","south","problem","piece","told","knew","pass","since","top","whole","king","street","inch","multiply","nothing","course",
"stay","wheel","full","force","blue","object","decide","surface","deep","moon","island","foot","system","busy","test","record","boat",
"common","gold","possible","plane","stead","dry","wonder","laugh","thousand","ago","ran","check","game","shape","equate","hot","miss","brought",
"heat","snow","tire","bring","yes","distant","fill","east","paint","language","among","unit","power","town","fine","certain","fly","fall","lead",
"cry","dark","machine","note","wait","plan","figure","star","box","noun","field","rest","correct","able","pound","done","beauty","drive","stood",
"contain","front","teach","week","final","gave","green","oh","quick","develop","ocean","warm","free","minute","strong","special","mind","behind",
"clear","tail","produce","fact","space","heard","best","hour","better","true","during","hundred","five","remember","step","early","hold",
"west","ground","interest","reach","fast","verb","sing","listen","six","table","travel","less","morning","ten","simple","several","vowel",
"toward","war","lay","against","pattern","slow","center","love","person","money","serve","appear","road","map","rain","rule","govern","pull",
"cold","notice","voice","energy","hunt","probable","bed","brother","egg","ride","cell","believe","perhaps","pick","sudden","count","square",
"reason","length","represent","art","subject","region","size","vary","settle","speak","weight","general","ice","matter","circle","pair","include",
"divide","syllable","felt","grand","ball","yet","wave","drop","heart","am","present","heavy","dance","engine","position","arm","wide","sail",
"material","fraction","forest","sit","race","window","store","summer","train","sleep","prove","lone","leg","exercise","wall","catch","mount","wish",
"sky","board","joy","winter","sat","written","wild","instrument","kept","glass","grass","cow","job","edge","sign","visit","past","soft","fun",
"bright","gas","weather","month","million","bear","finish","happy","hope","flower","clothe","strange","gone","trade","melody","trip","office",
"receive","row","mouth","exact","symbol","die","least","trouble","shout","except","wrote","seed","tone","join","suggest","clean","break","lady",
"yard","rise","bad","blow","oil","blood","touch","grew","cent","mix","team","wire","cost","lost","brown","wear","garden","equal","sent","choose",
"fell","fit","flow","fair","bank","collect","save","control","decimal","ear","else","quite","broke","case","middle","kill","son","lake","moment",
"scale","loud","spring","observe","child","straight","consonant","nation","dictionary","milk","speed","method","organ","pay","age","section","dress",
"cloud","surprise","quiet","stone","tiny","climb","cool","design","poor","lot","experiment","bottom","key","iron","single","stick","flat","twenty","skin",
"smile","crease","hole","jump","baby","eight","village","meet","root","buy","raise","solve","metal","whether","push","seven","paragraph","third",
"shall","held","hair","describe","cook","floor","either","result","burn","hill","safe","cat","century","consider","type","law","bit","coast","copy",
"phrase","silent","tall","sand","soil","roll","temperature","finger","industry","value","fight","lie","beat","excite","natural","view","sense","capital",
"won’t","chair","danger","fruit","rich","thick","soldier","process","operate","practice","separate","difficult","doctor","please","protect","noon","crop",
"modern","element","hit","student","corner","party","supply","whose","locate","ring","character","insect","caught","period","indicate","radio",
"spoke","atom","human","history","effect","electric","expect","bone","rail","imagine","provide","agree","thus","gentle","woman","captain","guess",
"necessary","sharp","wing","create","neighbor","wash","bat","rather","crowd","corn","compare","poem","string","bell","depend","meat","rub","tube",
"famous","dollar","stream","fear","sight","thin","triangle","planet","hurry","chief","colony","clock","mine","tie","enter","major","fresh","search",
"send","yellow","gun","allow","print","dead","spot","desert","suit","current","lift","rose","arrive","master","track","parent","shore",
"division","sheet","substance","favor","connect","post","spend","chord","fat","glad","original","share","station","dad","bread","charge","proper",
"bar","offer","segment","slave","duck","instant","market","degree","populate","chick","dear","enemy","reply","drink","occur","support","speech","nature",
"range","steam","motion","path","liquid","log","meant","quotient","teeth","shell","neck","oxygen","sugar","death","pretty","skill","women","season",
"solution","magnet","silver","thank","branch","match","suffix","especially","fig","afraid","huge","sister","steel","discuss","forward","similar",
"guide","experience","score","apple","bought","led","pitch","coat","mass","card","band","rope","slip","win","dream","evening","condition","feed",
"tool","total","basic","smell","valley","nor","double","seat","continue","block","chart","hat","sell","success","company","subtract","event","particular",
"deal","swim","term","opposite","wife","shoe","shoulder","spread","arrange","camp","invent","cotton","born","determine","quart","nine","truck","noise",
"level","chance","gather","shop","stretch","throw","shine","property","column","molecule","select","wrong","gray","repeat","require","broad","prepare",
"salt","nose","plural","anger","claim","continent")
while($true){
$phrase = [string]::Join(" ", @($(1..$(Get-Random -Maximum 20 -Minimum 8)) | % { Get-Random -Maximum $($words.Length-1) -Minimum 0 } | % { $words[$_] }))
$phrase = $phrase[0].ToString().ToUpper() + [string]::Join("", $phrase[1..$phrase.Length]) + ". "
$phrase | set-clipboard
Sleep -seconds 1
}
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