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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a parenthesis" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when referring to a word, phrase, or clause that is inserted into a sentence as an explanation or afterthought, often set off by parentheses. Example: "The committee, a parenthesis in the larger organization, met every month to discuss ongoing projects."
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Turing machine: a parenthesis checker.
Greed, he notes in a parenthesis, is "despair about pleasure".
To which I would say freedom is not a parenthesis.
A gravel beach, wide enough for a few tents, etched a parenthesis in the distance.
(Here, time for a parenthesis on why the French love Jerry Lewis.
She calls the parties and the celebrity whirlwind "a parenthesis", a blip in a political life.
We aren't "happy" anymore: we're simply a semicolon followed by a parenthesis.
"I think he showed that Fascism was not extraneous to the history of Italy, not a parenthesis".
President Mitterrand famously referred to the Vichy years as a "parenthesis" that did not represent a true and republican France.
Of the Radcliffe year alone, the divorce, we see very little; in a parenthesis, we learn that Walker saw a psychiatrist for depression around this time.
Kristol will often wonder out loud — as he did in Tokyo — whether Trump represents a "parenthesis" or a more permanent turn.
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