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Rule "missing hyphen in 'trickle down'"

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Description:	missing hyphen in 'trickle down'
Message:	It appears that a hyphen is missing.
Category:	Compounding (ID: COMPOUNDING)
Link:	https://languagetool.org/insights/post/hyphen/#compound-nouns-with-and-without-hyphens
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	Trickle down economics is the economic proposition that taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society should be reduced as a means to stimulate business investment in the short term and benefit society at large in the long term. Correction suggestion: Trickle-down
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ID:	TRICKLE_DOWN_HYPHEN [1]
Version:	6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-26 22:33:08 +0200)

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