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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
parenthesize .
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Examples
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And what did you mean by the parenthesized “tautologies”?
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And what did you mean by the parenthesized “tautologies”?
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His skull was nearly perfect, like a newborn, the way his ears parenthesized his face perfectly.
The Cat's Pajamas Robert Vaughan 2011
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And what did you mean by the parenthesized “tautologies”?
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And what did you mean by the parenthesized “tautologies”?
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As you say, Hercle is most definitely performing haruspicy because of his left foot raised to rest on what looks like nothing more than a stone, unbeknownst to mysterymonger De Grummond who mangles the meaning of the mirror with cutesy parenthesized question marks and disjointed artistic interpretations.
More about egg symbols in Etruria and the rest of the classical world 2009
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The Fowler example simply shows a comment clause where the meaning of the parenthesized item is more prominent in relation to the interpretation of the sentence as a whole.
On who(m)ever DC 2008
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The nature of the meaning relationship between the parenthesized item and the rest of the sentence is a variable.
On who(m)ever DC 2008
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On the penultimate page, K thinks in a parenthesized paragraph:Is that the moral of it all, he thought, the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything?
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In my recent review of the tribute to Mort Sahl, because I wanted to include long quotes from Albert Brooks and Sahl himself, I carelessly summarized an outstanding performance by veteran stand-up comic Richard Lewis with two parenthesized words, "dick jokes."
bilby commented on the word parenthesized
I read this a parent-sized. As in, 'I think I'll need a parent-sized glass of wine at the end of this week.'
May 27, 2022