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Use a colon or dash after "well" to introduce the list.
If you want to be on the safe side, use a colon after the salutation, although some people now feel it is permissible to use a comma in an e-mail message.
When a reporter from the Times reached Goodwin, before the auction, to ask about the connection, she noted that whereas the initials on Rodenstock's bottles were written "Th.J.," in his correspondence Jefferson tended to use a colon — "Th J".
"How do you know when to use a colon?" asked Travis, setting me up for a bathroom joke.
Do not use a colon.
(Don't use a colon after "included").
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Allan M. Siegal, a longtime arbiter of New York Times style before retiring, opined, "The semicolon is correct, though I'd have used a colon, which I think would be a bit more sophisticated in that sentence".
The name of a complex uses a colon, e.g., A B.
We also used a colon cancer cell line HCT116 with p53 negative or positive phenotype.
Using a colon specific classifier & a multi-tissue classifier we were able to correctly label all cancer samples.
Although we used a colon xenograft model to strengthen our findings, we paid much attention to the heterogeneity of cancer cells when reaching our conclusion.
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