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parenthesispa‧ren‧the‧sis /pəˈrenθɪsɪs/ ●○○ noun (plural parentheses /-siːz/) [countable usually plural]  parenthesisOrigin: 1500-1600 Late Latin, Greek, from parentithenai ‘to put in’ - How can you escape all this without some haversack of a parenthesis about the lady's character?
- In parenthesis I should say that I am passing quickly over the significance of these four levels of understanding.
- She saw and registered all this in parenthesis.
- Some of that evidence, it might be said in parenthesis, appears to be adverse to the appellants.
- The single amino acid change from the rat sequence is indicated in the parenthesis.
- We must begin with a parenthesis.
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