parentheses

NOUN

digression

Synonyms

STRONG

apostrophe aside deflection departure detour deviation difference divagation divergence divergency diversion drifting episode excursion excursus footnote incident irrelevancy note tangent variation wandering

WEAK

discursion obiter dictum rambling

Antonyms

STRONG

accord agreement conformity sameness similarity uniformity

Example Sentences

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It’s followed by parentheses that hold plain descriptions — red chapel relief; oil can; or, folding table and chairs, dark brown.

From Los Angeles Times

Some of his models were Senegalese men and women whose names appear in parentheses in the titles of the pieces.

From New York Times

She pulls this off primarily in five shows-within-the-show — historical parentheses that frame her contemporary selections, each set off from the main flow via colored walls of dusty pink or robin’s egg blue.

From New York Times

Don’t we deserve an opportunity to add the caveat, maybe in parentheses, that violence is never okay?

From Washington Post

The shift from semicolon to parentheses has provoked public dissatisfaction.

From New York Times