parentheses
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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
Unlike periods and commas, em dashes aren’t integral to sentence structure; they’re a considered choice that can, but by no means have to, take the place of commas, parentheses and semicolons.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025
Finnie: You said that when you were younger growing up, that you saw a record and you saw the name in parentheses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
A few weeks after I first noticed them, they look like a thick set of parentheses around my lips, and every time I see them, my stomach drops.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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