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pound sign

NOUN
the symbol #
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The partner of a man killed in a fish farm accident said a pound sign could not be put on a life after his employer was fined more than £800,000.

From BBC • May 9, 2023

The Washington state Department of Health instructs people to contact the DOH COVID-19 hotline at 1-800-525-0127 and press the pound sign to report the positive result from an over-the-counter test.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Sure, it’s probably way more than Eric Trump was hoping to reveal when he typed that pound sign, but sometimes your worldview just seeps through.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2018

Last summer, Facebook introduced "hashtags," or clickable keywords with a pound sign that Twitter users often employ to keep track of viral conversations.

From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2014

If the character in single quotes does not look like a pound sign to you, well, at least you know what is intended.

From Reminiscences of Captain Gronow by Gronow, R. H. (Rees Howell)



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