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See among unstable incomes sign of a pause? (9)

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I believe the answer is:

semicolon

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'sign of a pause?' is the definition.
'semicolon' can be an answer for 'pause?' (thesaurus). I'm not certain of the 'sign of a' bit.

'see among unstable incomes' is the wordplay.
'see' becomes 'lo' (archaic exclamation meaning 'look!').
'among' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters are placed among others).
'unstable' is an anagram indicator.
'incomes' with letters rearranged gives 'semicon'.
'lo' put into 'semicon' is 'SEMICOLON'.

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(Other definitions for semicolon that I've seen before include "used by writers for a break" , "Item of punctuation" , "half a stop" , "can cut sentence" , "Punctuation mark denoting a pause in a sentence" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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