round bracketsnoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈraʊnd ˌbræk.ɪts/us/ˈraʊnd ˌbræk.ɪts/UK also mainly US parenthesesthe symbols ( ) that are put around a word, phrase, or sentence in a piece of writing to show that what is inside them should be considered as separate from the main part
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Punctuation
- ampersand
- asterisk
- caron
- cedilla
- dash
- ditto
- ellipsis
- grave (accent)
- guillemet
- hyphen
- hyphenate
- lower case
- parentheses
- period
- punctuation
- punctuation mark
- question mark
- quotation marks
- tilde
- upper case
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