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.

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The exhibit, and the free brochure they give out with it, includes some wonderful surprises.

For years, high-school students who wanted information on a college could always grab a brochure from the counselor's office.

Note the wonderfully chosen example in the brochure of a cellphone in a rectal holster.

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The exhibit, and the free brochure they give out with it, includes some wonderful surprises.

For years, high-school students who wanted information on a college could always grab a brochure from the counselor's office.

Note the wonderfully chosen example in the brochure of a cellphone in a rectal holster.

Try to find an actual travel brochure of the area and compare your brochure to the real one.

Ever since the scientific community adopted heliocentrism as fact, the brochure notes, attempts have been made to prove it.

For a full list of activities, download this online brochure.

His girlfriend's mom worked at a hospital, and happened to pick up a brochure on the military's new regenerative medicine push.

They will invite you to an orientation session, send a brochure or an e-mail describing their services, or announce an open house.

Explain that each group will research its term and create a brochure.

After all, a phone call is both cheaper and more personal than a glossy brochure.

Create a real travel brochure or a scrapbook of a place you have visited.

The special rates in this brochure apply only to such advertising.

Have students create an adventure travel brochure for an imaginary place.

We also tried without success to locate some local dishes mentioned in a brochure.

She is working on a brochure advertising that company's services.

Atom-splitting is expensive, with brochure prices for.

AA has actually produced a brochure educating its members on working with the courts to bring people into.

Carnegie's mills," says a three-page brochure included with each.

The conference brochure established a framework for the meeting:.

Instead, colleges sent emails or a brochure to encourage a student to apply.

Check our all of our fall events with this interactive brochure.

On the back of this brochure is a handout that can be copied to have parents indicate their interest in becom-ing involved.

Have students create a travel brochure to describe and persuade others to visit their public lands.

Death was not one of the disorders listed in the brochure as curable by sand bath treatments.

They should use the interactive print press to create a brochure highlighting their tour.

Have students create a brochure highlighting their tour.

Have students create a brochure for their new public land.

Have students create a brochure advertising a museum devoted to the preservation of shipwrecks.

Two minutes in the local store tells me more about a place than any travel brochure ever can.

Pick up a self-guided tour brochure from the hotel lobby.

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World English Dictionary

brochure (ˈbrəʊʃjʊə, -ʃə)

—n
	a pamphlet or booklet, esp one containing summarized or introductory information or advertising

[C18: from French, from brocher to stitch (a book)]

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brochure

1748, from Fr. brochure "a stitched work," from brocher "to stitch" (sheets together), from O.Fr. brochier "to prick, jab, pierce," from broche "pointed tool, awl" (see broach (n.)).

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