punctuate
verb (used with object)
to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
unpunctuated
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a word derived from
punctuate.
Example Sentences
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Though the title jams everybody together in one breathless, unpunctuated rush, this is very much a movie about distance within families; an ellipsis between each word might have been apt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Yet this transition from pandemic to endemic is unpunctuated.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2022
And in those six unpunctuated words, the entire history of human perseverance is revealed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2019
O’Rourke’s story starts to wobble, however, when you learn that his next child, a daughter, is named Molly, seemingly referencing Leopold Bloom’s wife—she of the twenty-four-thousand-word, eight-sentence, unpunctuated soliloquy that closes the novel.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019
Similarly, take a bit of unpunctuated prose, add the dots and flourishes in the right place, stand back, and what have you got?
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
