parentheses
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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
They are untitled, but No. 14, in parentheses, tells us it is the site of “John Brown’s Tannery.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
Anyone who has taken geometry in high school has seen them: they are the sets of numbers in parentheses that represent a point in space.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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