I use that little flag as a placeholder.
Source: tatoeba (5303117)
Placeholder
/ˈpleɪsˌhoʊldɚ/
Synonyms for "placeholder" (68 found)
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Noun(11 words)
proxyabcbbbbookmarkcatchallcategorize as variableclassify as variabledemo contentdemonstrativedescriptivedummy label
Verb(1 words)
designate variable
Adjective(2 words)
empty squareexperimental proxy
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Related words (34)
Noun(30 words)
procuratorprovisionalrepresentativesbwsihasapastand instand-instopgapstopgapsstubbingstubssubstituteswobtemplate markertemporarytemporary namethingyvariablevariable datavariable definition
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Verb(1 words)
Adjective(3 words)
undesignated symbolunknown numbervariable properties
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11 entriesanonymous labeldemo imagedummy namedummy valueimage placeholdername tagslot fillertemplate labeltest datatest datumtext placeholder
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9 entriesdata placeholderimage placeholderplaceholder dataplaceholder imageplaceholder nameplaceholder textplaceholder valuetemporary placeholdertext placeholder
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5 total sentences available.
So square brackets indicate a placeholder, right? Can that placeholder represent anything other than a year?
Source: tatoeba (13401168)
This data is a placeholder, so you'll want to include the real numbers as soon as you have them.
Source: wiktionary
As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.
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