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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During that time, the lone inventor can flesh out the application in greater detail.

Outside looking in, a lone male elephant seal lurks at the edge of a harem.

The lone statistic the author uses in his argument is two years old and is reworded to prove his point.

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During that time, the lone inventor can flesh out the application in greater detail.

Outside looking in, a lone male elephant seal lurks at the edge of a harem.

The lone statistic the author uses in his argument is two years old and is reworded to prove his point.

One lone rope was found trailing in the water, not hooked up to any rigging, with the ends frayed.

The myth of the lone genius having a eureka moment that changes the world is indeed a myth.

If this were a lone study, it would need verification by others.

As air hits a bird in flight, it flows down the wings and creates vortices, which impose drag on a lone flyer.

Although interesting the cost a lone proves this in not a viable solution.

The first silent films had been accompanied by a pit orchestra or, for the more frugally minded impresario, a lone piano.

On the left, the magnetic field of a lone cylinder-shaped magnet.

Somewhere in the distance, a lone wolf howls at the rising moon.

The green of a lone plant lends stark contrast to the empty expanse of sand in this desert scene.

There were reports of lone deaths in temporary housing and suicide rates jumped in the quake-battered regions.

We sadly eyed the pile of dead bugs and one lone survivor.

The others involved lone adults armed with knives or, in once case, a wrench.

Afraid no one would believe her, she didn't tell a soul except for a lone confidant.

It was also a good time for my lone kid to meet her cousins.

Supporting this lone crusader for science are legions of others who work to make the laboratory function.

We claim that reasoning did not evolve to allow the lone reasoner to find the truth.

Scientists say this is the first evidence in the wild that a lone immigrant can.

The scientists also studied the brains of lone males who had recently been introduced to new mates.

But even if you're limited to a lone container, you can still enjoy a summer's worth of homegrown produce.

But those strikes have ordinarily targeted small groups, or lone individuals.

One lone sea lion is no match for a pod of female killer whales.

Fowler notes that people who vote often do so even when they know their lone ballot will not change the outcome of an election.

But even if you're limited to a lone container, you can still enjoy a summer.

The photojournalist has long been known as the lone wolf, traveling solo to.

America's new patent law seeks to encourage lone inventors in other ways.

One lone man is immune to a pandemic virus that ravages humanity.

And then, you post a lone employee with a clipboard by the door to take names and numbers.

Such comparisons will help scientists to better understand this lone example of mammalian heart.

The lone surfer out there is getting spanked big time.

Lone banana at bottom of bunches acts as plug to keep internal fluids circulating.

Even though ants' exoskeletons naturally repel water, a lone ant dropped in a bucket will flounder.

The following day the lone chick took up the entire nest.

The lone search bar at the top allows users to explore through any combination of.

Kroger is anything but a lone voice in the wilderness when he argues that there are many nutritional benefits to eating insects.

The lone sentinel island, the eastering seas, the infinite horizons all around the ocean.

It was winter, freezing, the trees encased in ice and a few lone blackbirds balancing on telephone wires.

And allopregnanolone, mentioned in the lone study he links to regarding hormones.

In an upper layer, for example, the scientists found a lone ball of white raw cotton on the left and right side of the mummy.

But the image of an inspired, lone rider isn't accurate.

Rising before the sun, a lone camel trader sits near.

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World English Dictionary

lone (ləʊn)

—*adj*
1.	unaccompanied; solitary
2.	single or isolated: a lone house
3.	a literary word for lonely
4.	unmarried or widowed

[C14: from the mistaken division of alone into a lone]

'loneness

—n

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lone

late 14c., aphetic shortening of alone (q.v.) by misdivision of what is properly al(l) one. The Lone Star in ref. to "Texas" is first recorded 1843, from its flag. Loner "one who avoids company" first recorded 1947. Lone wolf in the fig. sense is 1909, Amer.Eng.

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