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In some cases, yes.

It's usually a bad idea, however; the more common usage is for the semicolon to precede the word.

It may help to ask yourself "would this still make sense if the semicolon were a period?" If so, then the semicolon is probably in the right place.

There's really no reason to ever use a semicolon if you don't know how to do it properly. 99 44/100 % of the time a period will work almost as well. (The 0.56% where it won't? Programming languages.)

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