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Noun
Her lawyer previously said in court that Vartannivartanians was the correct version of her name, with no hyphens.—Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025 The lives of this family and millions of others are balanced on that flimsy hyphen.—Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
Verb
Normally, closed caption subtitling bleeps words in a variety of different ways: phrases, such as (bleep), [expletive], or [censored] may be used, though sometimes hyphens or asterisks are substituted instead (f–k, f---, or f*** are all examples.—Ace Ratcliff, SELF, 10 July 2018 See All Example Sentences for hyphen
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Etymology
Noun
Late Latin & Greek; Late Latin, from Greek, from hyph' hen under one, from hypo under + hen, neuter of heis one — more at up, same
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