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paragraph

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


NOUN
indentation
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In a paragraph outlining the evaluation process and criteria, they wrote:

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

Notably, the paragraph says nothing about the U.S. making arrangements for the safe passage of vessels, which Iran has seized on to attack ships that use a U.S.-coordinated route, the official said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 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

The framework’s first paragraph declares “the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”

From Slate Jun. 17, 2026

It is hard not to imagine de Vries, in his study in Amsterdam on a gray March morning, slitting open that reprint and running his eyes through the first paragraph.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The official rules on estate recovery take up just three paragraphs on Medicaid’s website.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

I am sure of it not because I remember writing this thing in fits and starts throughout Saturday, but because an A.I. detector called Pangram blessed these paragraphs with a “100% Human Written” score.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

For David Harbour, it was the messages pouring in from friends — not the usual “great job!” an actor receives when a program is airing, but long blocks of text, paragraphs dripping with emotion.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

"They are already identifying 70% of our hearts attacks from two paragraphs of text," said Swinburn.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

His heart picked up speed as she flipped past the cover page, skimming the paragraphs.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

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

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

The magnificent copes and vestments, of which there are some score, are merely tabulated, paragraphed, and photographed, and there is an end of them.

From Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes

The Lead.—The lead itself is always paragraphed separately.

From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde

Her work was spelled and periodic, phrased and paragraphed.

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

I am sneered at by all my acquaintance, and paragraphed in the newspapers.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

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

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

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

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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