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1. Represents a mouth vertically aligned, in order to form emoticons.
3. Separates a letter or number from an item in a list.

   Synonym: .

   Near-synonym: ( )

   A) New York, B) London, C) Paris.

   a) New York, b) London, c) Paris.

   1) New York, 2) London, 3) Paris.

   I) New York, II) London, III) Paris.

   • 2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan‎ (in English):

     Whether a specific moment in pop culture history—i.e. Madonna at the VMAs—or a callback to an iconic style decade—her '70s curtain bangs or '50s-style swimwear from the "Espresso" music video—these looks are A) easy to recreate and B) so wearable for repeated use after your tour date has come and gone.

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4. Used in ( ).
   • 2025 April, “Can AI Change Your View? Evidence from a Large-Scale Online Field Experiment”, in University of Zurich‎ (in English), page 1:

     Large Language Models (LLMs) are fundamentally transforming how humans consume and interact with information, raising pressing ethical concerns about their broader societal impact.

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1. (mathematicsCategory:mul:Mathematics#)) Denotes an open endpoint of an interval.

   ${\displaystyle [a,b)=\{x\in \mathbb {R} \,|\,a\leq x<b\}}$

Etymology

Borrowed from RussianCategory:Azerbaijani terms borrowed from Russian#)Category:Azerbaijani terms derived from Russian#) ).

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1. (Internet slangCategory:Azerbaijani internet slang#), text messagingCategory:Azerbaijani text messaging slang#)) :-), expressing happiness or amusement.

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1. used in ( )

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1. Used in ( ).

Etymology

Evolved from :-). In the Russian keyboard layout, one has to press Shift+6 to type a colon, which is deemed inconvenient, particularly in instant messaging, as it requires both hands, resulting in the decline of :-).

Punctuation mark

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1. (Internet slangCategory:Russian internet slang#), text messagingCategory:Russian text messaging slang#)) :-), expressing happiness or amusement.