hyphen
Example Sentences
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It was announced on Tuesday that Mr Mountbatten-Windsor's surname should be spelled with a hyphen.
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025
“When you put a hyphen between two things, it almost makes it sound like they're somehow equal,” Zahr said.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2023
But with the slash of a hyphen and the snip of a “20,” Mr. Evers changed 2024-25 to the year 2425.
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2023
For his own part, Fuhrmann was happy to have taken on the hyphen and to have won.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2022
There are exceptions, cases when you’ll want to use a hyphen in words starting with pre, pro, and re.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.