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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

Let's assume we're making this into a 7-bit text, so we're going to convert the non-ASCII character a-circumflex and the pound sign.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim



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