emoticon
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Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns tweeted in response on Wednesday, using a national flag emoticon for “America.”
From Washington Times • Aug. 17, 2022
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
“And here you can’t even remove one fool,” Lutsenko laments, using a sad-face emoticon as he again appeared to push for Yovanovitch’s ouster.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2020
He argued that his use of the tongue-out emoticon “:-P” suggested that he was making statements in jest and not as serious threats.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2019
Sitting there in just a bathing suit, not really thinking about anything, Cade became curious about the emoticon scar along my spine.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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Computer Science and Technology - Introductory
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Computer Science and Technology - High School
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