A hyphen is no substitute for the versatile em dash, a sentence punctuation mark some may simply call "dashes." ... On a PC, hold down control and press the minus sign on a number pad.

KitKat, the chocolate snack, used to have a hyphen between "Kit" and "Kat," so its official name was once "Kit-Kat." For instance, in late 2023, a Reddit post shared in the Mandela Effect ...

Some people think AI writing has a tell — the em dash. Writers disagree. Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence.