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The shoes featured a matte finish and dramatic stiletto heel, creating a sleek and vivid punctuation mark beneath the floor-sweeping hem of her jet-black trousers.
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Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 26 July 2025
Today, the punctuation mark shows up just once every 390 words—a nearly 50 percent fall from the start of the century.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
More than half of the respondents did not know how to correctly use the punctuation mark.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
By observation, this option seems to suppress less common punctuation marks such as the square and curly brackets.
—PC Magazine, 17 June 2025
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Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 26 July 2025
Today, the punctuation mark shows up just once every 390 words—a nearly 50 percent fall from the start of the century.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
More than half of the respondents did not know how to correctly use the punctuation mark.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
By observation, this option seems to suppress less common punctuation marks such as the square and curly brackets.
—PC Magazine, 17 June 2025
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“Punctuation mark.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/punctuation%20mark. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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punctuation mark
noun
: any of various marks or signs used in punctuation
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