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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

So what if some Gen Z influencers see a venti hyphen where you see a proud, versatile dash?

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025

Not all of his ideas made the cut though - X-Ray Drive was rejected by the council due to a hyphen being in it, which forced the change to Radiography Road.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025

I wasn’t born with a hyphen linking me to Africa, any more than I was born with a desire to dribble a basketball or to write.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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

As we know him, LeBron is a basketball player with so many other hyphens behind that.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2021

“It sharpens all those hyphens into so many knives and daggers,” said Lee in a Senate floor speech intended to stop the motion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2020

Many hyphens show up where they’re not wanted.

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

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

Golden-nob is 'a variety of apple'; see E.D.D.: and as a special name, which the passage implies, it should be hyphened.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Society for Pure English

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