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  2. Abstinence pledge - Wikipedia

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    Abstinence pledge programs take a variety of stances on the role of religion in the pledge: some use religion to motivate the pledge, putting Biblical quotes on the cards, while others use statistics and arguments to motivate the pledge. Advocacy of virginity pledges is often coupled with support for abstinence-only sex education in public schools.

  3. List of typographic features - Wikipedia

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    Contextual Swash: cswh: S8 Converts letter to a swashed version based on characters around the letter Contextual Alternates: calt: S6 Applies a second substitution feature based on a match of a character pattern within a context of surrounding patterns Historical Forms: hist: S1 Obsolete forms of characters to be applied at the user's ...

  4. Context (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Verbal context influences the way an expression is understood; hence the norm of not citing people out of context. Since much contemporary linguistics takes texts, discourses, or conversations as the object of analysis, the modern study of verbal context takes place in terms of the analysis of discourse structures and their mutual relationships ...

  5. Ceremonial deism - Wikipedia

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    The first use of the term in a Supreme Court opinion is in Justice Brennan's dissenting opinion in Lynch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668 (1984)....I would suggest that such practices as the designation of "In God We Trust" as our national motto, or the references to God contained in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag can best be understood, in Dean Rostow's apt phrase, as a form a "ceremonial ...

  6. Contextual documentation - Wikipedia

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    Contextual documentation is an information block approach to writing in-situ documentation. It becomes particularly useful when dealing with in-situ documentation delivered to the software GUI , to devise a matrix of required help to users in a particular situation or context.

  7. Register (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow prescriptive norms for formal usage than in a casual setting, for example, by pronouncing words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal ...

  8. Key Word in Context - Wikipedia

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    Key Word In Context (KWIC) is the most common format for concordance lines. The term KWIC was coined by Hans Peter Luhn . [ 1 ] The system was based on a concept called keyword in titles , which was first proposed for Manchester libraries in 1864 by Andrea Crestadoro .

  9. Form and document creation - Wikipedia

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    Evaluation will show where a form or document needs to be improved, even when that form or document meets the overall needs for which it was created. For example, Michael Turton, a veteran designer of transactional documents and forms, was surprised to find that coworkers were having trouble with a form he designed that he knew was adequate. [60]