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punctuation

noun as in comma

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And a bit of lemon zest—the punctuation mark that makes everything else sing.

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He said he did sometimes get a "gut feeling" when the technology had been used wrongfully, but the training had helped him to look for specific markers, such as certain punctuation.

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Think of tang as punctuation: it makes each bite snap, balances richness and keeps your loaded fries from tipping into monotony.

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The idea that AI adoption could unwittingly recast any single piece of punctuation as a literal mark of fraudulence seems like an unbearable irony.

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But they speak so fast, and talk about no punctuation — there’s not a period or a comma in the world to stop them once they start talking.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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