exclamation mark

noun

the punctuation mark ! used after exclamations and vehement commands
this mark used for any other purpose, as to draw attention to an obvious mistake, in road warning signs, (in chess commentaries) beside the notation of a move considered a good one, (in mathematics) as a symbol of the factorial function, or (in logic) occurring with an existential quantifier

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Leon punctuated his order with, by my count, 27 exclamation marks, signifying his intense impatience with the quality of the government’s arguments in his courtroom.

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"You’ve got to have a password and it’s got to be 12 letters and it’s got to have an exclamation mark," complains the 70-year-old.

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That so many Republicans and Democrats did not vote in one of the most important presidential elections in the country’s history, is an exclamation mark on a society in crisis.

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His Madison Square Garden rally was an exclamation mark for this fact.

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His deadline day signing was not so much a statement from Birmingham but an exclamation mark.

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