parentheses
Example Sentences
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Toby had put parentheses after exponents when explaining PEMDAS, even though the order was literally parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.
From Literature
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
It’s less jarring than parentheses but a bigger interruption than commas.
They are listed in ascending order of their trailing-month returns, which are displayed in the parentheses.
From MarketWatch
It will always be a melter of a slow jam, but its intention is in those parentheses – to be in the sensation of aliveness he’s created.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
