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parentheses
Punctuation marks — ( ) — used to separate elements in a sentence. Parentheses subordinate (see subordination) the material within them so that readers save most of their attention for the rest of the sentence: “Aunt Sarah (who is really my mother's cousin) will be visiting next week.”
Example Sentences
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.
It was an ad for a Holocaust tour that touted in parentheses “with lunch.”
Finnie: You said that when you were younger growing up, that you saw a record and you saw the name in parentheses.
Figures in parentheses reflect the number of times a book was checked out.
A look at the qualifying fields, broken down by site and with world ranking in parentheses:
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