"He looked at my profile, and I sent him a smiley face, " she said.

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His feedback and communication is direct, but sometimes tempered in email with a smiley face.

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Eventually, he gave it up, and she sent back a smiley face.

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Suzie drew a smiley face in the condensation on the washbasin mirror.

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They gave workers a five-euro note, folded into the origami version of a little shirt, plus a two-euro coin painted with a smiley face.

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With the powerful high-tech communications tool known as a smiley face.

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Certain idiotic-sounding behaviors that create a bond: drawing a smiley face on a check, doling out after-dinner candy, wearing a funny necktie or forecasting good weather.

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Pictures of the sign - which ends with a smiley face - have been widely circulated on social media, with many commentators congratulating the library on its stance.

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As every elementary school teacher knows, sometimes a simple smiley face will do the trick.

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She fought him off until he fled in a yellow Jeep Wrangler that had a yellow smiley face on the spare tire cover and, possibly, Illinois license plates, police said.

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