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- is a symbol that can be called:

  • a dash, used in writing to show a pause or to explain something
  • a minus sign, used in mathematics to write a subtraction sum, or put just before a number to show that it is a negative number.
  • a hyphen, used in writing to show two words written as one or used at the end of a line to show that it is broken between two lines and continued in the next one.
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