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Inside the unofficial movement to save the em dash — from A.I.

By Ava Berger,
Megan Lim, Patrick Jarenwattananon
Published November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM MST

The extra-long hyphen known as the em dash is common in AI-generated text. While some writers have responded by choosing to avoid the punctuation mark, others are fighting back.

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