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1. Represents a mouth vertically aligned, in order to form emoticons.
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     Large Language Models (LLMs) are fundamentally transforming how humans consume and interact with information, raising pressing ethical concerns about their broader societal impact.

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1. (mathematics) Denotes an open endpoint of an interval.

   ${\displaystyle (a,b]=\{x\in \mathbb {R} \,|\,a<x\leq b\}}$

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2. (Internet slang, by extension) Added to the end of a message, either left parenthesis only or both, used in place of ellipses …… (which can be read as indecisiveness) to imply an abrupt and intentional end to an incomplete sentence.

   確實如此，然而（

   I mean that's true, but (you know

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