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
Finnie: You said that when you were younger growing up, that you saw a record and you saw the name in parentheses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
If the entire quotation is in parentheses, then the closing parenthesis should go outside the quotation marks.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
