Bogdan Tanjević will resign because of colon cancer.
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Colon
/ˈkoʊ.lən/
Synonyms for "colon" (175 found)
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7 entriesCosta Rican monetary unitEl Salvadoran monetary unitdigestive organintestinelarge intestinepunctuationpunctuation mark
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4 entriesascending colondescending colonsigmoid colontransverse colon
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5 entriescolon cancercolon functioncolon tissuecolonoscopy procedurelarge intestine
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13 total sentences available.
The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
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In my language, the "," is called comma, the ";" is called semicolon, ":" is called colon, "..." are called ellipsis, and this sentence ends with a period.
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Bogdan Tanevich resigned because of colon cancer.
Source: tatoeba (1539861)
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