a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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Jaczko acknowledges that the agency needs to move faster on some safety issues.

If you work at a community college that teaches cybersecurity, it pays to be located in the backyard of a spy agency.

There might be a way to get a new rating agency up and accepted faster than going thru a complete cycle.

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Jaczko acknowledges that the agency needs to move faster on some safety issues.

If you work at a community college that teaches cybersecurity, it pays to be located in the backyard of a spy agency.

There might be a way to get a new rating agency up and accepted faster than going thru a complete cycle.

Amenities include a restaurant, ice-cream shop and travel agency.

Innovation should not be dictated by a needless government agency.

The program is now officially done, the agency says.

Those partnerships pose a wide range of payoffs and risks, the agency says.

Banks want to work with an agency that will give their securities a credible and high rating.

But he said the agency could say little more about the case while it was in litigation.

The space agency crashed a satellite on the moon in a search for water.

Dodd proposed a new agency to regulate credit cards and other consumer products.

It asks the space agency to focus on private-sector transport to the space station and long-distance human missions.

The probe will hitchhike on a lunar orbiter that the agency aims to launch in late.

US intelligence agency aims to forecast unrest by reading the runes of social media.

The agency had already enlisted an unusual team of bioscience experts.

It is rare in advertising for an agency to disclose a loss of a client, much less to announce it publicly.

Some scientists fear agency is compromising need to promote diversity in health.

The difficulty, as ever, is to make the agency properly serve the public that pays for it.

Choose your state from the list, and then find the name of the agency that manages your school's water.

Advertiser and agency placing order are jointly and severally liable for payment.

Each country has their own system and agency to monitor their territorial volcanoes.

Still, the agency does have some hope of getting the money it says it needs.

Make sure you check to see if the agency you're dealing with offers no-cost extensions.

Meanwhile a score of journalists working for a news agency in the same group were briefly put behind bars.

Payment must be made by closing unless advertising is placed through an accredited agency.

The federal agency will issue fracking wastewater rules to strengthen state-level standards.

While the agency will not comment on the lawsuit, it has not denied the key claim of the complaint:.

The agency has repeatedly put out calls for suggestions from the public.

The new agency aims to re-invent how energy is produced and used.

The agency even recorded an album for the fictional character's fictional band.

It also would establish a new agency to oversee consumer lending.

The federally funded agency predicts where tropical cyclones will go and how strong they will be when they arrive.

In its search for endocrine-disrupting chemicals, the agency should turn to new scientists, says an advocate.

In its search for endocrine-disrupting chemicals, the agency should turn to new.

The federally funded agency predicts where tropical cyclones will go and how strong.

But experts say the agency could-and needs to-do better.

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World English Dictionary

agency (ˈeɪdʒənsɪ)

—n , pl -cies
1.	a business or other organization providing a specific service: an employment agency
2.	the place where an agent conducts business
3.	the business, duties, or functions of an agent
4.	action, power, or operation: the agency of fate
5.	intercession or mediation
6.	one of the administrative organizations of a government

[C17: from Medieval Latin agentia, from Latin agere to do]

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agency

1650s, "acting of an agent," from M.L. agentia, noun of state from L. agentem (nom. agens, gen. agentis), prp. of agere (see act). Meaning "establishment where business is done for another" first recorded 1861.

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