Language and Literature
- Period (punctuation), a punctuation mark indicating the end of a sentence or phrase, specifically, a dot.
- Periodic sentence, a sentence that is not grammatically complete until its end
- The final book in Dennis Cooper's George Miles cycle of novels
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