hyphen

Example Sentences

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These attacks on the em dash — a ChatGPT hyphen?

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2025

Or perhaps the story of his panic at seeing a post-it note saying "please re-sign" on some documents, and not noticing the hyphen, wondered what he'd done to justify having to quit.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2023

But with the slash of a hyphen and the snip of a “20,” Mr. Evers changed 2024-25 to the year 2425.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2023

For his own part, Fuhrmann was happy to have taken on the hyphen and to have won.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2022

There are exceptions, cases when you’ll want to use a hyphen in words starting with pre, pro, and re.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner