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  2. Well-being - Wikipedia

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    Well-being is the state that egoists seek for themselves and altruists aim to increase for others. [15] Many disciplines examine or are guided by considerations of well-being, including ethics, psychology, sociology, economics, education, public policy, law, and medicine. [16] The word well-being comes from the Italian term benessere. It ...

  3. Talk:Well-being - Wikipedia

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    Yeah it will by default assume you want to search for the hyphenated word, and will convert the syntax (note the message "Replaced well-being with [well - being] to match how we processed the books"). Your link isn't proper - see how in the legend of the graph it is using double-hyphens as "well -- being".

  4. Syllabification - Wikipedia

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    A hyphenation algorithm is a set of rules, especially one codified for implementation in a computer program, that decides at which points a word can be broken over two lines with a hyphen. For example, a hyphenation algorithm might decide that impeachment can be broken as impeach-ment or im-peachment but not impe-achment .

  5. English compound - Wikipedia

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    English uses many open compound nouns, a large subclass of which, by convention in accepted English orthography, are not closed up (not solidified) and are sometimes optionally hyphenated in attributive position (that is, when functioning as a noun adjunct).

  6. Hyphen - Wikipedia

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    The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. [1]The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the plus sign +.

  7. Wikipedia:Hyphens and dashes - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia uses four: the hyphen (sometimes called the hyphen-minus), the minus sign, the en dash, and the em dash. Hyphen (- or -, MOS:HYPHEN; known as the hyphen-minus in ASCII and Unicode) are used in many ways on Wikipedia. They are the only short, horizontal dash-like character available as a separate key on most keyboards.

  8. Wal-Mart -- or is it Walmart? -- tries to shed its hyphen - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/2009-08-14-wal-mart-or-is-it...

    At the end of its second-quarter earnings release, Wal-Mart dropped a bomb on the business community. Henceforth, the big-box behemoth would no longer be called "Wal-Mart," but rather "Walmart ...

  9. Compound modifier - Wikipedia

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    A compound modifier that is spaced rather than hyphenated is referred to as an open compound. [2] When a numeral and a noun are used in a compound modifier that precedes a noun, the noun takes the singular form. For example, the 2021 Belmont Stakes was a "12-furlong race" and an "eight-horse race", not a "12-furlongs race" or an "eight-horses ...