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  2. Time limit - Wikipedia

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    A time limit or deadline is a narrow field of time, or a particular point in time, by which an objective or task must be accomplished. Once that time has passed, the item may be considered overdue (e.g., for work projects or school assignments). In the case of work assignments or projects that are not completed by the deadline, this may ...

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    Only in limited situations where brevity is helpful [c] ... hyphen, or slash; this dash is unspaced (that is, ... The time 00:00 refers to midnight at the start of a ...

  4. Hyphen - Wikipedia

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    The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. [1]The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the plus sign +.

  5. National conventions for writing telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    A three digit code starting with 07 indicates that the number is for a mobile phone. All national numbers start with one leading 0, and international destinations are specified by the prefix 00 or +. The numbers are written with the area code followed by a hyphen, and then two to three groups of digits separated by spaces. [8]

  6. Date and time notation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Date and time notation in the United States differs from that used in nearly all other countries. It is inherited from one historical branch of conventions from the United Kingdom . [ citation needed ] American styles of notation have also influenced customs of date notation in Canada , creating confusion in international commerce.

  7. List of date formats by country - Wikipedia

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    The legal and cultural expectations for date and time representation vary between countries, ... -– hyphen (dash) – space; Country ... but not limited to, ...

  8. English compound - Wikipedia

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    "African American", as a hyphen is seen to disparage minority populations as a hyphenated ethnicity [14] The following compound modifiers are not normally hyphenated: Compound modifiers that are not hyphenated in the relevant dictionary [10] [11] [13] or that are unambiguous without a hyphen. [12] Where there is no risk of ambiguity: "a Sunday ...

  9. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Elsewhere, ampersands may be used with consistency and discretion where space is extremely limited (e.g., tables and infoboxes). Quotations may be cautiously modified , especially for consistency where different editions are quoted, as modern editions of old texts routinely replace ampersands with and (just as they replace other disused glyphs ...