emoticon
Example Sentences
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“To all the Tweeps who decided to make today your last day: thanks for being incredible teammates through the ups and downs,” she tweeted with a saluting emoticon.
From Washington Times • Nov. 18, 2022
Others had grown suspicious of his emoticon use: one wrote that anyone “who uses the ‘!?’ emoji is totally a middle-aged man.”
From Washington Post • May 11, 2021
The grotesque Smiley masks from the 2012 horror movie “Smiley” — fleshy featureless sights with eye slits and a smiling mouth slit cut and stitched in — recall the smiley emoticon.
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2020
If they write “Mrs.” in an email, I correct them in my response with a winky-face emoticon.
From Slate • Nov. 7, 2019
I offered to give him my own T-shirt, but he said no because he couldn't think up anything new to name my emoticon scar.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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Computer Science and Technology - Introductory
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