parentheses

Example Sentences

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It’s less jarring than parentheses but a bigger interruption than commas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

They are listed in ascending order of their trailing-month returns, which are displayed in the parentheses.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 10, 2025

It will always be a melter of a slow jam, but its intention is in those parentheses – to be in the sensation of aliveness he’s created.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2025

One of those descriptions included in “UCLA vs USC” in parentheses.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025

Next to it, in parentheses, I wrote the word band.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez