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The phrase "the thing is" could be considered an interjection, since it usually adds little if any meaning to the sentence in which it occurs. If written, it probably should be followed by a comma, because most persons who use the phrase pause slightly afterward before getting to the substance of what they want to be saying. This phrase, along with "you know", "here's the deal", etc. is best avoided altogether, unless one is a stenographer with a duty to record the speech of others or an author of fiction who wishes to convey the sense that the character to whom one attributes such speech is an unorganized and/or hesitant speaker and/or thinker.

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