as in interval
a break in continuity
there was a parenthesis of silence when the microphone momentarily lost power
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Recent Examples of parenthesis
Top 10 With records through Sunday and previous rankings in parentheses.
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Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
Player ages at the start of the 2025 season are listed in parentheses.
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Calculator App: Apple is giving its Calculator app an upgrade by adding new features like the ability to enter and continue to view complete expressions (with trigonometry, parentheses, and multiple operations) before pressing equals to see the final answer.
—Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
Listen to this article San Diego Union-Tribune Boys Basketball Rankings
First-place votes in parentheses; points awarded on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis
Team; Record; Points;Last
1.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
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Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
Player ages at the start of the 2025 season are listed in parentheses.
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Calculator App: Apple is giving its Calculator app an upgrade by adding new features like the ability to enter and continue to view complete expressions (with trigonometry, parentheses, and multiple operations) before pressing equals to see the final answer.
—Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
Listen to this article San Diego Union-Tribune Boys Basketball Rankings
First-place votes in parentheses; points awarded on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis
Team; Record; Points;Last
1.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parenthesis
Noun
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Hamas has now released a total of 16 Israeli hostages as part of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, of a total of 33 promised at staggered intervals during this stage.—
Michael Rios,
CNN,
9 Feb. 2025
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Complete 3-4 intervals, each four minutes long, with a 3-4 minute recovery in between.—
Jakob Roze,
Health,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Advocates for Community Health, which represents community health centers, wrote in a statement that clinics in Maine, Nebraska, Illinois, Michigan, along with Virginia, had experienced interruptions.—
Selena Simmons-Duffin,
NPR,
8 Feb. 2025
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There were a record 259 rocket launches in 2024 — each one requiring an interruption or redirection of commercial air traffic.—
Joann Muller,
Axios,
31 Jan. 2025
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After a hiatus for Season 14, the German model returned to the NBC show for a four-year stint for Seasons 15-19.—
Edward Segarra,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2025
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Florida has three games left before the league hiatus, a two-game trip the Eastern Conference-leading Washington Capitals (34-11-7) on Tuesday (7 p.m., Scripps) and St. Louis Blues (24-25-4) on Thursday (8 p.m., Scripps) before hosting Ottawa on Saturday (7 p.m., Scripps).—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
3 Feb. 2025
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Colleges shouldn't be financially penalized for pay gaps in the job market, Guillory said, or for labor challenges in other industries.—
Forbes,
Forbes,
3 Feb. 2025
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Given her memory gap and pending ongoing observation/evaluation, Amy has been stripped of her lab coat and forced back into scrubs.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
3 Feb. 2025
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On Friday, a judge prevented the Trump administration from placing 2,200 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, known as USAID, on administrative leave, after a pause on all new U.S. foreign assistance programs funded by the State Department and USAID the week prior.—
Kaia Hubbard,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2025
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Not done yet Martin Truex Jr. has put his retirement on pause for another shot at the Daytona 500.—
Edgar Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2025
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“Parenthesis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parenthesis. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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