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Recent Examples of exclamationMicrosoft's example for how this is useful uses the exclamation mark emoji.—James Peckham, PC Magazine, 9 July 2025 With a 6-3 ruling Friday restricting the power of judges to issue nationwide blocks on presidential initiatives, the court put an exclamation mark on a term dominated by Trump victories.—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 28 June 2025 Second-year outfielder Andy Pages hit a go-ahead double in the 10th inning to propel LA to the win, adding an exclamation mark to a great season so far with the Dodgers.—Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025 Rafael Devers then delivered the exclamation mark in the ninth with a solo shot to the second deck, and Toro finished the scoring with an RBI double.—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for exclamation
When Murkowski finally appeared on the floor, she was quickly surrounded by Thune, Barrasso, Graham and Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), who barraged her on all sides with points and interjections.
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Alexander Bolton,
The Hill,
29 June 2025
This suggests that pain interjections may have originated from nonlinguistic vocalizations.
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Katarzyna Pisanski,
Scientific American,
21 Feb. 2025
Factory workers heard screams, but couldn’t save their colleague.
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Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
14 July 2025
Hunt, Texas — Ever since dawn on the Fourth of July, a broken hearts club bigger than Texas has been forced to imagine the speed of water and the screams of children.
When a truck carrying Mr. Nasrallah’s coffin entered the stadium, the crowd erupted in shrieks and cries as the voice of the former Hezbollah leader — clipped from his speeches — echoed from speakers.
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Christina Goldbaum,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
Late in the show, a lone woman’s passionate shriek activates something in McCartney.
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