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hyphenate
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The other day I came across one of those loopy hyphenations that one occasionally finds in newspapers and magazines: Parker, a New York Giants defensive end, was rearrested this week in connection with the death of his girlfriend's 4-year-old son.
Byline: Fred Shuster Music Writer As the pop world explodes into more and more hybrids and hyphenations, with each arcane offshoot more dissonant than the last, it's refreshing to come across music that sounds like today but has age-old roots.
However, the sonnets with few or no hyphenations tend to be more successful; the hyphenations can be more or less comprehensible to the reader, and successful within the poems, according to the extent to which the poetical constructions of the sonnet both call for their creation and justify it.
 
 
 
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