ABC World News Tonight, October 14, 2026

On the Oct 14, 2026 episode of ABC World News Tonight, 9 of the 16 words Kalshi listed were said; Parrot’s count agreed with all 16 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each.

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Markets

16 words · 9 settled yes · our count agreed on 16 of 16

backtest The probabilities on settled rows are a walk-forward backtest: the model as of before each event, computed after Parrot went live; they were not published at the time.

Listed words: result, our count under the market rule, the count over every speaker, whether they agree, and the probability (a walk-forward backtest on settled rows)
WordResultOur countAll speakersAgreesProbabilityMarket
Ukraine / Ukrainian / Zelenskyy Yes1111✓38%n=9 from settlement history–
Trump 5+ timesYes1010✓71%n=57 from settlement history–
Russia / Russian Yes88✓48%n=18 from settlement history–
Pope Leo Yes66✓55%n=2 from settlement history–
Oil / Gas / Gasoline Yes66✓52%n=46 from settlement history–
Iran / Iranian Yes55✓50%n=8 from settlement history–
Inflation Yes44✓30%n=11 from settlement history–
Flood / Flooding Yes33✓53%n=3 from settlement history–
NTSB Yes11✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Saudi No00✓50%n=10 from settlement history–
Guilfoyle No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Resign / Resignation No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Zacharia No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Great Wolf Lodge No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Social Security No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
AI / Artificial Intelligence No00✓38%n=47 from settlement history–

Market prices are mid quotes from Kalshi and Polymarket, shown for context, may be delayed by several minutes and are not a signal. Quotes as of Oct 20, 2026 23:45 UTC.

Transcript

quotes of at most 25 words

Machine transcript · ABC World News Tonight podcast audio (ABC), machine transcript · Source · Used to count words; quotes of at most 25 words.

Machine-attributed. Speaker turns are labelled by a model, not the publisher.

1 match for “White House”; 1 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Speaker not labelledreporter8:15

David. Rachel Scott, live at the White House tonight. Rachel, thank you. This evening, we are now hearing the alarming moments on the phone at…

Where the listed words were said

Speaker not labelledreporter“Ukraine / Ukrainian / Zelenskyy” · 2:06

…to plunge. Lee Goldberg is here with the forecast. Tonight, Russia's new assault on Ukraine, and President Zelensky says they feel betrayed by the U.S.

Speaker not labelledreporter“Trump (5+)” · 1:23

Driven by gas and diesel and the war in Iran. President Trump campaigning saying pretend I'm on the ballot. Tonight, the farmers and ranchers in…

Speaker not labelledreporter“Russia / Russian” · 13:27

David? Lee Goldberg with us here tonight. Lee, thank you. Overseas tonight, Russia had a punishing new attack on Ukraine. And tonight, President Zelensky now…

Speaker not labelledreporter“Pope Leo” · 10:05

…right, Trevor Alt reporting. Thanks, Trevor. We're going to turn now to Pope Leo and his new battle against lung cancer. There is news tonight…

Speaker not labelledreporter“Oil / Gas / Gasoline” · 6:01

…three weeks away. And this evening, the new inflation report just out, showing prices skyrocketing, driven by gas and diesel and the war in Iran.

Speaker not labelledreporter“Iran / Iranian” · 6:57

driving higher costs the war with iran which has sent diesel prices to record highs it's probably the most stressful time of my life in…

Speaker not labelledreporter“Inflation” · 6:22

Spiking gas and diesel now pushing the rate of inflation to 3.7 percent. In Arizona, President Trump now nearly two years into his term, blaming…

Speaker not labelledreporter“Flood / Flooding” · 12:52

…storm east of Lubbock right now. An active tornado warning and flash flooding possible as well. We've already had a reported tornado near Fort Stockton,…

Speaker not labelledreporter“NTSB” · 12:12

…Pope Leo. Tom, thank you again. Meantime, back here in the U.S. tonight, the NTSB now investigating a deadly plane crash north of Madison, Wisconsin.

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