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paragraph

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


NOUN
indentation
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The key phrase in the previous paragraph is “give the president the power to tariff.”

From Slate Aug. 1, 2026

His victory speech, in the middle of the night, was, paragraph by paragraph, implicit about his ambitions and in totality almost explicit.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

I had to pause momentarily while writing this paragraph just to wipe a tear from the corner of my eye.

From Salon Jun. 6, 2026

Morgan Stanley’s analysts expect the policy paragraph of the statement, featuring data dependence and a meeting-by-meeting approach, to remain unchanged.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

I stare at a single paragraph for a quarter of an hour but can’t absorb it.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Its policy statement on Wednesday consisted of four short paragraphs, while previous statements, such as the one in April, included traditional boilerplate items, comments on recent events and details of policy votes by committee members.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

Nonetheless, just two short paragraphs generated a great deal of controversy.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

The author has an excellent few paragraphs on what he calls “the big leap—from liberalism to radicalism.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

Instead, the so-called autopsy was a shambolic train wreck of missing paragraphs, factual errors, and apparent plagiarism.

From Slate May 23, 2026

In reality, the only thing that could be isolated in the rocky paragraphs was the insistent hammering on the word equinox, equinox, equinox, and the name of Alexander von Humboldt.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The papers had not merely paragraphed Peter, and the peculiar position of the "district" in the convention, but they had begun now asking questions as to how the ward would behave.

From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford

I was lampooned, caricatured, and paragraphed in the newspapers, in a thousand different ways.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton

Her work was spelled and periodic, phrased and paragraphed.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort

But the car might--drop before----" "Better decently dead than publicly paragraphed....

From The Green Mouse by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Whether you wrote as Jones, or Smith, or Robinson, you'd find Jones, Smith, or Robinson artfully puffed and paragraphed and thrust under people's noses in the papers.

From The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

Correctly identify and use conventions of the personal narrative genre, including structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

Determine how genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

It's a massive book, littered with obscure references, and is written almost entirely in unattributed speech, with no chapter breaks and very little paragraphing.

From The Guardian Jan. 22, 2013

Caro now says that Shawn agreed to restore all the changes he cared most deeply about, but the magazine version nevertheless differs from the original and changes Caro’s punctuation and paragraphing.

From New York Times Apr. 12, 2012

Among the many dumb rules of paragraphing foisted on students in composition courses is the one that says that a paragraph may not consist of a single sentence.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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