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carriage return

noun as in return key

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Williams poem to make the case that a stanza without the intentional carriage returns is merely a paragraph.

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The typewriter’s punchy carriage return — and its associated pinging sound — has a way of punctuating the end of barreling motifs in the flute writing.

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Oma grows accustomed to the incessant tapping, the constant ring of the carriage return.

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The carriage return signals the end of a line.

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And then came the familiar rattle of the typewriter keys being struck, the thwack of the carriage return being hit.

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