parentheses
Example Sentences
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It’s less jarring than parentheses but a bigger interruption than commas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
They are listed in ascending order of their trailing-month returns, which are displayed in the parentheses.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 10, 2025
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 • Oct. 19, 2025
It was an ad for a Holocaust tour that touted in parentheses “with lunch.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2024
Sometimes when he is making an aside he will rev up even further, as if to put in his own verbal parentheses.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
