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[Larz60+]

You have to do it a bit differently if you want to accumulate:

counts = {}

def add_sentence(sentence):
    slist = sentence.split()
    for word in slist:
        word = word.strip()
        if word in counts:
            counts[word] += 1
        else:
            counts[word] = 1

def print_counts():
    for key, value in counts.items():
        print('{:<10} {:<10}'.format(key, value))
    print('\n-------------------\n')

def main():
    sentence1 = 'This is a random sentence, if a random sentence is what you want'
    sentence2 = 'This is another sentence like the first'
    add_sentence(sentence1)
    print_counts()
    add_sentence(sentence2)
    print_counts()
main()

result:

Output:
This       1         
is         2         
a          2         
random     2         
sentence,  1         
if         1         
sentence   1         
what       1         
you        1         
want       1         

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This       2         
is         3         
a          2         
random     2         
sentence,  1         
if         1         
sentence   2         
what       1         
you        1         
want       1         
another    1         
like       1         
the        1         
first      1         

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