parenthesis
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“There’s an inevitability to what is happening,” Jarvis, author of “The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and its Lessons for the Age of the Internet,” said in an interview.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2024
Ascanio called the gap between the two the Parenthesis.
From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2023
In Parenthesis is British composer Iain Bell's adaptation of the epic poem by David Jones, who fought in the Battle of Mametz Wood.
From BBC • May 13, 2016
Composed of free verse and prose, In Parenthesis is at once a poem, a novel, and a singular combination of both.
From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2011
Slim pushed Sage-brush back into his chair, and Parenthesis tapped the minister on the shoulder to distract his attention.
From The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama by Day, Edmund
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Rhetoric
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