hyphenation

[hahy-fuhn-ay-shuhn]

noun

1. the act, process, or result of joining words with a hyphen.

2. the act of identifying a person or thing as a hybrid by means of an expression or name that contains a hyphen.

Example Sentences

Dickinson’s poetry, with its much-studied hyphenation and stunning leaps of imagination, has fueled admiration for centuries, nearly all of it after her 1886 death, when her sister found her poems in her dresser drawer.

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Sometimes this is a result of hyphenation, such as single-use last year.

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But she isn't the sort of person whose career is easily defined, at least without a lot of hyphenation.

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Du Bois, the great-great-grandson of a slave, believed that being black and being American could be conceived “as leading neither to assimilation nor separatism but to proud, enduring hyphenation”.

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“This is what we strive for: To be accepted for our talent without categorization, without hyphenation, and until we get there, we do things like this,” said Phillips.

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