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  2. Professional wrestling - Wikipedia

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    Professional wrestling (often referred to as pro wrestling, or simply, wrestling) is a form of athletic theater [ 2 ] that combines mock combat with drama, under the premise (known colloquially as kayfabe) that the performers are competitive wrestlers. Although it entails elements of amateur wrestling and martial arts, including genuine ...

  3. Predeterminism - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Predeterminism is the philosophy that all events of history, past, present and future, have been already decided or are already known (by God, fate, or some other force), including human actions. Predeterminism is closely related to determinism. [1] The concept of predeterminism is often argued by invoking causal determinism, implying ...

  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. Syllabification - Wikipedia

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    A hyphenation algorithm is a set of rules, especially one codified for implementation in a computer program, that decides at which points a word can be broken over two lines with a hyphen. For example, a hyphenation algorithm might decide that impeachment can be broken as impeach-ment or im-peachment but not impe-achment .

  6. List of double placenames - Wikipedia

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    Sala y Gómez: one island named for two people. Lewis and Clark County, Montana: named for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. In dual naming, words in two different languages have been joined by a hyphen or a slash to become the community's (or geographic feature's) official name, often because of language politics:

  7. Compound modifier - Wikipedia

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    A compound modifier that is spaced rather than hyphenated is referred to as an open compound. [2] When a numeral and a noun are used in a compound modifier that precedes a noun, the noun takes the singular form. For example, the 2021 Belmont Stakes was a "12-furlong race" and an "eight-horse race", not a "12-furlongs race" or an "eight-horses ...

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

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    Manual of Style (MoS) This page guides the presentation of numbers, dates, times, measurements, currencies, coordinates, and similar items in articles. The aim is to promote clarity, cohesion, and consistency, and to make the encyclopedia easier and more intuitive to use. For numbers, dates, and similar items in Wikipedia article titles, see ...

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    In article text, do not use a capital letter after a hyphen except for terms that would ordinarily be capitalized in running prose, such as proper names (e.g. demonyms and brand names): Graeco-Roman and Mediterranean-style, but not Gandhi-Like. Letters used as designations are treated as names for this purpose: a size-A drill bit.