This paper has been printing Pickaxe Mountain as threat language — "very soon" — with no strike in fetched copy. [1] Friday has no strike. Granite and depth are not a crater. Print unstruck. Do not print a hit. Leave a named strike to the edition that owns a named strike.

No Friday crater photo is in the Pickaxe file, so unstruck remains the word and 'very soon' is still threat language.
Unstruck granite is still unstruck. Friday recap that treats 'very soon' as a crater is a feed, not a strike.
No Friday battle-damage image is in the Pickaxe file, so unstruck remains the mountain word.
Formulations outlive weeks; mountains outlive formulations. Friday's formulation is months old. The mountain is older.
Friday is not a crater.

"Very soon" has been Washington's formulation for months, applied to several sites in turn. Formulation is not targeting data. Friday's mountain is unchanged from Wednesday's.

Older mountains outwait formulations; Friday's waits. Waiting is the mountain's trade. Craters stay absent.

Absent craters stay absent; Friday's mountain is unchanged from Wednesday. Very soon is months old. Natanz is another site.

Formulation is not targeting data. The mountain is unchanged. Craters stay off the page.

Pickaxe Mountain is still standing in Friday's file. Very soon has rotated across sites without becoming targeting data. No strike photo landed on this desk. Unstruck granite is the honest word this edition will keep.
Craters stay off the page. No strike photo landed on this desk. Unchanged. Craters stay off the page.

No strike photo landed on this desk. Unchanged. Craters stay off the page.

-- ANNA WEBER, Berlin