parentheses

plural of parenthesis

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Recent Examples of parentheses The notes — about 30 rows of capital letters, numbers, dashes and parentheses broken into sections — baffled investigators. Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025 Top 10 With records through Monday and previous rankings in parentheses. Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025 Teams are listed with first-place votes in parentheses, results from their Kickoff Classic preseason game, and next game. Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025 The stats in parentheses reflect Maye’s camp-long performance. Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 18 Aug. 2025 The number of points received is in parentheses. Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parentheses
Noun
  • The celestial events happen annually or at other intervals, NASA says.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Ten years on the Moon exposes the battery at fortnightly intervals to extremes of heat and cold, with temperatures during the lunar night dropping as low as -334 °F (-173 °C) and staying near that extreme for two weeks.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Democrats, however, blasted Earle-Sears’s constant interruptions during the debate as unwieldy.
    Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Roughly halfway through the hour-long debate — largely characterized by frequent interruptions from Earle-Sears — Spanberger criticized Earle-Sears’ history of opposition to LGBTQ+ rights.
    Samantha Riedel, Them., 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Newcomers this year include Ming, Ressence, Leica, Studio Sarpaneva, Konstantin Chaykin, Fortis, Fears, Bianchet, Artya, and Artisans de Genève, along with two brands returning after long hiatuses, HYT and Zenith.
    Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2025
  • After several hiatuses, the buckets returned in 2016, 2022, and 2023.
    Ben Kelly, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Check for holes in screens and gaps in weather stripping around doors and windows.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The gaps in liability frameworks were laid bare after a 2018 fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car.
    Nelson Lim, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the unofficial demo, the humanoid responds to voice commands slowly and takes awkward pauses.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Their words will have bolstered his belief, giving him the confidence to show for and collect the ball again in the defensive third just after the break, using a combination of touches and pauses to evade Brentford pressure before making a more assured sideways pass this time.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Parentheses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parentheses. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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