hyphen

So he inserted a hyphen to help people say it correctly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The New York Times analysis relies heavily on textual analysis of old emails and posts, and in particular incorrect hyphen usage and British spelling.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026

The lives of this family and millions of others are balanced on that flimsy hyphen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025

These attacks on the em dash — a ChatGPT hyphen?

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025

Women who walked over the “heath” and read morocco-bound books and had two last names divided by a hyphen.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Missing hyphens or incorrect capitalization, ambiguities about singular and plural nouns or transitive and intransitive verbs — no question is too insignificant.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2023

Missing hyphens or incorrect capitalization, ambiguities about singular and plural nouns or transitive and intransitive verbs - no question is too insignificant.

From Washington Times ● May 29, 2023

Who cares about hyphens, commas and capital letters?

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2022

Diggs spoke with The Times about the season finale of “Snowpiercer,” acting and hyphens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

Here are some exceptions to the “before or after” rule for hyphens in two-word descriptions: • If self or quasi is one of the words, always use a hyphen.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

To meet the supposed legal exigencies the two names were simply hyphened.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley

These slight differences are by no means accidental, because Alms-basket is hyphened to count as two words and thereby cause the long word to be the 151st word.

From Bacon is Shake-Speare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence

Mr. Tempest, unimpressed by the hyphened St. Clair, was unwilling to allow the courtship to proceed.

From The Simpkins Plot by George A. Birmingham

Knew him before he married Miss Forbes of Glenluce, my wife's second cousin, and hyphened his name with hers, to keep the property in the family.

From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Grant Allen

The shortening of the first line is never a blemish, but a too short second line following a hyphened first line is always a fault.

From Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton