hyphenated
social science US or CANADIAN ENGLISHspecialized
not using a hyphenated word (= including the symbol -) to describe your culture, politics, or family background:
Eventually, Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Italian-Americans, etc., simply became unhyphenated Americans.
Many people just want to be unhyphenated Canadians.
Even editors seem to be confused about hyphenated and unhyphenated compounds.
If all the hyphenated words were unhyphenated, I doubt most books would get much longer.
Both the hyphenated and unhyphenated forms are widely used.
She sees herself as an unhyphenated white woman.
People who identify as unhyphenated Americans seem to have distinct voting patterns.

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Punctuation
abbreviated
accent
acute
apostrophe
at sign
block capitals
caron
comma
curly bracket
dash
diacritical
hyphen
punctuation mark
round bracket
scare quotes
small cap
small capitals
solidus
stroke
tilde

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