hyphen

Example Sentences

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These attacks on the em dash — a ChatGPT hyphen?

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

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

When two words are combined to describe a noun, sometimes you use a hyphen between them and sometimes you don’t.

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