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paragraph

[par-uh-graf, -grahf] / ˈpær əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /


NOUN
indentation
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Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak have pinpointed a winter night in 2016 as the turning point, when the justices “issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling” on Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026

The Washington Post mentioned it in the 36th and final paragraph of its front-page story on McVeigh’s arrest.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

TurboQuant is the opening paragraph — not the conclusion — of the memory-stock correction.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

To surprise him, I brought a story from Page 40 of the April 17, 1978 newspaper and pointed to the 16th paragraph: Apple’s first appearance in the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The sheet of paper had a short paragraph at the top.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman




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