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parentheses
- Punctuation marks 鈥 ( ) 鈥 used to separate elements in a sentence. Parentheses subordinate ( see subordination ) the material within them so that readers save most of their attention for the rest of the sentence: 鈥淎unt Sarah (who is really my mother's cousin) will be visiting next week.鈥
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It was an ad for a Holocaust tour that touted in parentheses 鈥渨ith lunch.鈥
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Finnie: You said that when you were younger growing up, that you saw a record and you saw the name in parentheses.
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Figures in parentheses reflect the number of times a book was checked out.
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A look at the qualifying fields, broken down by site and with world ranking in parentheses:
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The final Associated Press Washington state football poll as voted upon by a panel of sports media from across the state with first-place votes in parentheses, first-place votes and points from voting.
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