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paragraph
[ par-uh-graf, -grahf ]
noun
- a distinct portion of written or printed matter dealing with a particular idea, usually beginning with an indentation on a new line.
- a note, item, or brief article, as in a newspaper.
verb (used with object)
- to divide into paragraphs.
- to write or publish paragraphs about, as in a newspaper.
- to express in a paragraph.
paragraph
/ ˈpærəˌɡrɑːf; -ˌɡræf; ˌpærəˈɡræfɪk /
noun
- (in a piece of writing) one of a series of subsections each usually devoted to one idea and each usually marked by the beginning of a new line, indentation, increased interlinear space, etc
- printing the character ¶, used as a reference mark or to indicate the beginning of a new paragraph
- a short article in a newspaper
verb
- to form into paragraphs
- to express or report in a paragraph
paragraph
- A basic unit of prose. It is usually composed of several sentences that together develop one central idea. The main sentence in a paragraph is called the topic sentence .
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Derived Forms
- paragraphic, adjective
- ˌparaˈgraphically, adverb
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Other Words From
- para·graph·ism noun
- par·a·gra·phis·ti·cal [par-, uh, -gr, uh, -, fis, -ti-k, uh, l], adjective
- sub·para·graph noun
- un·para·graphed adjective
- well-para·graphed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Obviously we’re still figuring this out, but I wanted to note it here given the above paragraph.
Back in July, OpenAI’s latest language model, GPT-3, dazzled with its ability to churn out paragraphs that look as if they could have been written by a human.
Digging through the previous paragraph, we just saw that after 48 hours there was a 25 percent chance of having two worms, a 50 percent chance of having three worms and a 25 percent chance of having four worms.
You can convey something in an instant that would take a paragraph.
Use paragraphs, headings, and signal words to display your content nicely on your webpage, allowing for greater user experience.
Think about that for a second if after the preceding paragraph you remain convinced of the infallibility of our system.
It goes on like that for another half a paragraph, but you get the idea.
For a writer who was a master of reduction, never one to linger on the passing view, this was an unusually effulgent paragraph.
If the story fell apart by the first paragraph, it would not save itself by the end.
Whitman is made to share a chapter, lumped in with Proust, Wilde, and Baudelaire, in which he is allotted a mere paragraph.
So they often occured mid-paragraph; here they have been moved to a more appropriate place.
I mark this by inserting a paragraph-mark ( ) at the beginning of each tern.
If we get to the bottom of it, we shall find that the countess inspired the paragraph that the Evening Mercury had to-night.
I would not have believed it; it came to me quite as a shock—that paragraph in the late Mercury.
In the original draft of the instructions was a curious paragraph which, on second thoughts, it was determined to omit.
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