Example Sentences
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The Center for American Progress found that over 69 million female citizens over 15 do not have a birth certificate that matches their legal name because of a name change or hyphenation.
From Salon
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.
From Washington Post
Sometimes this is a result of hyphenation, such as single-use last year.
From BBC
But she isn't the sort of person whose career is easily defined, at least without a lot of hyphenation.
From Golf Digest
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”.
From The Guardian
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