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- adjective Of or pertaining to
punctuation - adjective
punctuated
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Examples
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Mr. Morris decidedly avoids ballet's way with applause-getting high points, such as punctuational strokes that use expansively taut, dramatically held poses and acrobatically scaled lifts to cap individual scenes.
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I developed a sense of the ‘punctuational apocalypse’ – meaning that as a period at the end of the sentence, the Apocalypse gives meaning to what has come before.
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Because of a book about punctuation called Comma Sense: A FUN-damental Guide to Punctuation (get it? get it? wonder why book publishing is in a crisis?) that I co-authored with extremely famous grammarian guy Richard Lederer (author of the hilarious and bestselling Anguished English series), I sometimes get e-mails from people pondering perplexing punctuational problems.
John Shore: When Punctuation Goes Terribly, Terribly Wrong 2010
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Because of a book about punctuation called Comma Sense: A FUN-damental Guide to Punctuation (get it? get it? wonder why book publishing is in a crisis?) that I co-authored with extremely famous grammarian guy Richard Lederer (author of the hilarious and bestselling Anguished English series), I sometimes get e-mails from people pondering perplexing punctuational problems.
John Shore: When Punctuation Goes Terribly, Terribly Wrong 2010
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Unfortunately the illiterate louts to whom I write remain generally unimpressed by my punctuational gymnastics.
Archive 2008-02-01 The Nag 2008
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Because of a book about punctuation called Comma Sense: A FUN-damental Guide to Punctuation (get it? get it? wonder why book publishing is in a crisis?) that I co-authored with extremely famous grammarian guy Richard Lederer (author of the hilarious and bestselling Anguished English series), I sometimes get e-mails from people pondering perplexing punctuational problems.
John Shore: When Punctuation Goes Terribly, Terribly Wrong 2010
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Beyond punctuational griping, I enjoyed the interview.
Interview: Spike Jonze Talks About His New Short Film We Were Once a Fairytale | /Film 2009
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Mr. Costello's score changes, but it rarely climaxes; it includes nothing like the punctuational pacing that gives Broadway shows their bite, accent and impact.
A Tharp Ballet That's Brand New Robert Greskovic 2008
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The 2 hour flight on an Airbus 320 was punctuational and comfortable.
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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary announced this month that it has committed punctuational genocide, eliminating 16,000 hyphens from its pages.
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