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- noun Plural form of
em-dash .
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Examples
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I'm drafting some scripts for comics set during the Revolutionary War, and one of my first decisions was that they would include em-dashes, reflecting the typography of the time.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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One wanted a lot of descriptive with em-dashes and “pop” while others wanted just the facts.
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I'm drafting some scripts for comics set during the Revolutionary War, and one of my first decisions was that they would include em-dashes, reflecting the typography of the time.
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(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. RAKOFF: I like things that, you know, build in that way with semi-colons and em-dashes and things like that.
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I mean, I'm all for grammar snobbery, but this person blackballed the article because of frickin 'em-dashes.
The Invited Review Reviewers Candid Engineer 2008
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(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. RAKOFF: I like things that, you know, build in that way with semi-colons and em-dashes and things like that.
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(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. RAKOFF: I like things that, you know, build in that way with semi-colons and em-dashes and things like that.
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(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. RAKOFF: I like things that, you know, build in that way with semi-colons and em-dashes and things like that.
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(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. RAKOFF: I like things that, you know, build in that way with semi-colons and em-dashes and things like that.
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(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. RAKOFF: I like things that, you know, build in that way with semi-colons and em-dashes and things like that.
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