All end-of-line hyphenation have been removed, and the de- hyphenated words placed at the end of the first line.

For decades, hyphens have been dropped from formerly hyphenated words.

Hyphens tend to clutter up text (particularly when the computer breaks already hyphenated words at the end of lines).

A hyphenated word is two words joined with a hyphen like mother-in-law.

In fact, he sounds insulted when those hyphenated words are used.

They cannot even be used in hyphenated words such as bride-to-be.

Once, he stopped in the middle of a hyphenated word.

And a few other hyphenated words she couldn't come up with right now.

The reason the move was so difficult, she said, can be summed up in one hyphenated word: "Teen-agers."

I create this hyphenated word to distinguish her concerns from esthetics.