Meanings
- Used in a compound term when the constituent parts are already hyphenated.
high-priority–high-pressure tasks
- Used to connect compound terms with the sense of "to" or to show a relationship
blood–brain barrier
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The Boston–Washington race
- Used to connect a spaced or hyphenated term.
Further, this socialization implores black Memphians to strive to challenge the increasingly complex structural inequalities of race and class in the post–civil rights era.
2014 April 15, Zandria F[elice] Robinson, “Post-Soul Blues”, in This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 782 more examples
Argent the capitalist, Leeson implies, much more overtly than was possible for Stevenson, who lacked the benefit of hindsight which informs Leeson’s late–twentieth-century text, that capitalism is a form of piracy.
1998: John Stephens and Robyn McCallum, Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children’s Literature, page 182 (Routledge; →ISBN)The glass doors open and you are greeted by a walkie-talkie–carrying personal assistant in a Star Trek–ish designer black tracksuit who whisks you to a pod seating booth in the bar.
2006, Alison Culliford, Night+Day Paris (Cool Cities), Pulse Guides, →ISBN, page 59
Synonyms & antonyms
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–. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%E2%80%93
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