parenthesis

Example Sentences

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Whereas if it were ‘natural flavor’ and then in parenthesis a long list of bizarre chemical names, you might think twice about eating it.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2024

That’s where it started off with the parenthesis; it was marking a sense of time passing but also emphasizing the single exposure.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2023

"They should have made a parenthesis in the subtitles when the North Korean character speaks," She said.

From Fox News • Oct. 6, 2021

For an inequality in one variable, the endpoint is shown with a parenthesis or a bracket depending on whether or not a is included in the solution:

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

The corpuscular philosophy is, in the end, a parenthesis between scholasticism and Newtonianism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton