punctuation
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Fold in dill, chives and scallions — not as garnish, but as punctuation.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
Over the past few years, my texts have become rife with mangled words and strange punctuation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
When you type a question into your favorite AI chatbot, it turns it into tokens representing words, parts of words, and punctuation.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
The review refers to the "so-called 'rules-based international order'", putting the latter phrase in inverted commas: a kind of delegitimisation by punctuation mark.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026
When he sent her a telegram for their “Sixteenth Monthiversary,” he joked that each letter and punctuation mark was a code standing for “I love you!”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Vocabulary lists containing punctuation
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Language and Grammar - Introductory
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