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PARENTHETICAL EXPRESSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An expression in parentheses
Example:
his writing was full of parentheticals
Synonyms:
parenthetical; parenthetical expression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("parenthetical expression" is a kind of...):
adjunct (a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence)
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