C# Regular Expression to find multiple sequences of punctuation characters

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Im trying to match punctuations using regular expressions.

Do i have to specify every punctuation character i am searching for or is there is an escape sequence i can use?

Im sitting here smiling to myself that the answers i might get will just be "Yes" or "No", please elaborate.... (that sentence should match the regular expression twice)

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