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How can I escape an HTML tag without using code blocks?

In a question on Meta Code Golf, I want to quote a comment by SteveFest which displays an HTML tag as a literal set of characters. I can't find a way to include <s>not</s> without ...
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Escape characters in questions [duplicate]

I have ran some strange thing in magento stackexchange. I tried to add a link by somelink\...\anotherlink without code quotes and strangely first forward slash went missing like : somelink...\...
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How do I escape the hash sign (#) if I want to use it in the section title?

In this SO answer, I wanted to use the header Script component code in C# using the section title. However, the markdown syntax removed the hash sign (#) and it currently displays the text as Script ...
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How do I escape a backtick ` within in-line code in Markdown?

How do I escape a backtick ` within a code block? This is probably a duplicate, since I'm sure it's a common concern, but I can't find a question that addresses this specifically. How do I write ...
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How can the backtick character ` be included in code?

I tried before to post a shell script that contained a ` character as an answer on Stack Overflow. The parser insisted on treating the backtick as formatting instead of part of code. How can I ...
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