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parenthetical

puh ren the ti kuhl

  • n  an expression in parentheses
    his writing was full of parentheticals
  • s  qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses
    parenthetical remarks

  • We'd like the same opportunity to put a link into a flowing sentence rather than having to break up a thought with the appearance of parenthetical gibberish.
  • From now on, the Journal announced in a front-page editorial, it would not mention any group on the list without a parenthetical warning that it had been "cited as a Communist .
  • In a parenthetical note to "A Prisoner's Song," Antoon explains that the poem's title refers to POWs on both sides of the Iran-Iraq war.

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