The exclamation-point trick is pretty adorable.

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Crosby's eye-popping goal provided the exclamation point in a 4-0 win in Game 5 on Thursday night as the Penguins took a 3-2 series lead.

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If poets were punctuation, Zevon was a great, big, bold, in-your-face exclamation point in a world with too many pedestrian periods.

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In the morning, rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning relieved some pressure with a golden finish in women's crew, but a cycling-mad country still wanted an exclamation point from its Wiggo.

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Rep. Steve Israel of New York, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and a former public-relations manager, said he prefers the period over an exclamation point or nothing at all.

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In the rapid-fire exchanges between debaters on news shows, "absolutely" is the linguistic version of an exclamation point, Thompson says.

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