Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A symbol ( — ) used in writing and printing to indicate a break in thought or sentence structure, to introduce a phrase added for emphasis, definition, or explanation, or to separate two clauses.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
em dash .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Before I do, though, I’d just like to point out to anyone whose eyes might have lit up at the sight of the word emdash: it’s NEVER correct to use an emdash in a manuscript; standard format requires a doubled dash with a space at either end.
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Making sure \expndtw-2 that everything is delivered on time and put in place is \expndtw-1 something John does\emdash which is why he's busy now and \expndtw-2 we're not.
Never Come Down Black, Michelle 1996
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"I \expndtw1 wanted to sustain the associations to the Inn\emdash which is \expndtw-1 quite historic, you know\emdash and I think it's lovely, but then, \expndtw-2 I did the sketch myself.
Never Come Down Black, Michelle 1996
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Bureaucrats even created a map for the Germans, marking each house with a Jew with a black dot emdash / and showing which neighborhoods should be targeted.
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Bureaucrats even created a map for the Germans, marking each house with a Jew with a black dot emdash / and showing which neighborhoods should be targeted.
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Many in my discipline (design) tend to think of the consumers of their products as being rational, thinking beings & emdash; Not unlike themselves.
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All dictators are alike and all dictators will not negotiate their departure emdash / they are made to leave, Soro said.
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The United Nations has said that the volatile West African nation once divided in two faces a real risk of return to civil war, but Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, a Ouattara ally, told reporters that the country is already at this point emdash / "indeed in a civil war situation."
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The size of this spill is almost incomprehensible & emdash; reports of the damage have only just begun.
Rep. Chellie Pingree: BP Should Help Us Build Our Clean Future Rep. Chellie Pingree 2010
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Fredel Jean, a 22-year-old journalism student, said the election could not be thrown out after $29 million was spent to see it through emdash / mostly from the United States and other donor countries.
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