: a punctuation mark - used especially to divide or to compound words, word elements, or numbers
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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
Ace Ratcliff, SELF, 10 July 2018
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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
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“Hyphen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyphen. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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