unhyphenated
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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It was only at this time that I noticed that my daughter-in-law had quietly unhyphenated her name on her profile.
From Slate
George F. Will, in his March 8 op-ed, “Nikki Haley picks a worthy fight,” an adulation of former U.S. ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley’s defense of unhyphenated capitalism, overlooked how the rules within which free markets function are not themselves established by market forces.
From Washington Post
“Whistleblower” is now one word, generally unhyphenated, and defined by activists as someone who exposes wrongdoing, often from the inside at personal risk.
From Seattle Times
Looking and sounding a little different, these immigrant Americans, as well as their American-born descendants, are often perceived and presumed as “perpetual foreigners,” forever excluded from becoming an unhyphenated American, assumed loyal to another homeland.
From Salon
The choice to be accepted as an unhyphenated American is something that she and second- or third-generation European-Americans have.
From Salon
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