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- adjective Written in
all caps , with all letterscapitalized . - noun Alternative spelling of
all caps .
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Examples
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It might as well read “everybody look at me!” in all-caps and colored fonts.
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Most people posting in all-caps are not reachable by reasonable advice on substance orstyle.
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I couldn't get it through her head to quick sending me emails in all-caps. paintbox paintbox
NumLocker Disables The Caps Lock Key | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Ten points for demonstrating that its media relation strategy doesn't just consist of all-caps comment board posts, incoherent cable news hits, irate e-mails to HuffPost Hill in which "lap dog" is spelled with an ampersand and their other aggressively alternative forms of communication.
HUFFPOST HILL - Evan Bayh Jumps Into Scrooge McDuck Equity Pool Eliot Nelson 2011
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As a techwriter, I frequently have to type things that are all-caps.
Use Caps Lock For Hand-Friendly Text Navigation | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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But the agency turned up the volume on today's recall of 21,000 sump and effluent pumps issuing an all-caps warning: “If you suspect that you have one of the recalled pumps and it is plugged in, do not touch it, the water around it or the surrounding floor area,” reads the recall notice.
Recall: 21,000 sump pumps that pose electric shock hazard 2011
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Should Weiner not survive, should he perish in a hail of all-caps tabloid punnery, there is only one place he can truly redeem himself, find similar, empathetic company and seek forgiveness:
Weiner Should Be Seeing Green Jason Gay 2011
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Please behave as one and take that one, reasonable step to fit in by stopping the all-caps as you have been asked. thank you,
New White House strategy: Sauve Qui Peut. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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She's out of shelf space, and her big wish is to get some of Amy's bookshelves when Amy revamps her library and puts in the SHELVES-OF-DOOM (I think that must always be in all-caps).
My alien daughter eddvick 2009
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Ten points for demonstrating that its media relation strategy doesn't just consist of all-caps comment board posts, incoherent cable news hits, irate e-mails to HuffPost Hill in which "lap dog" is spelled with an ampersand and their other aggressively alternative forms of communication.
HUFFPOST HILL - Evan Bayh Jumps Into Scrooge McDuck Equity Pool Eliot Nelson 2011
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