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paragraph

[par-uh-graf, -grahf] / ˈpær əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /


NOUN
indentation
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Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak have pinpointed a winter night in 2016 as the turning point, when the justices “issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling” on Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026

TurboQuant is the opening paragraph — not the conclusion — of the memory-stock correction.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

The tone of the marketing campaign bid request itself echoes that message, with its introductory paragraph pulled directly from Newsom’s State of the State speech in January.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Within a paragraph, Alito then suggested that Scalia would have been “appalled” by the ugliness, the coarseness of the discourse.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026

The lyrics for each section were preceded by a paragraph of prose that augmented the narrative laid out in the lyrics.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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