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apostrophes
noun(apos-tro-phe)
a mark ' used to indicate the omission of letters or figures, the possessive case (as in "John's book"), or the plural of letters or figures (as in "the 1960's")
apostrophes
noun(apos-tro-phe)
the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically

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