Obviously we’re still figuring this out, but I wanted to note it here given the above paragraph.
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Back in July, OpenAI’s latest language model, GPT-3, dazzled with its ability to churn out paragraphs that look as if they could have been written by a human.
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Digging through the previous paragraph, we just saw that after 48 hours there was a 25 percent chance of having two worms, a 50 percent chance of having three worms and a 25 percent chance of having four worms.
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You can convey something in an instant that would take a paragraph.
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Use paragraphs, headings, and signal words to display your content nicely on your webpage, allowing for greater user experience.
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It goes on like that for another half a paragraph, but you get the idea.
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If the story fell apart by the first paragraph, it would not save itself by the end.
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Fineman enumerates “15 Reasons Why American Politics Has Become An Apocalyptic Mess,” each summarized in just one paragraph.
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And writers seem to get it a lot, the relationship between words and page and phrase and paragraph, or stanza.
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So—most of these stories are vignettes: short shorts, sketches, lightning flashes of fiction that last only a paragraph or two.
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Gimblet read the paragraph twice, and then pushing back his chair walked restlessly about the room.
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I note the second paragraph of your letter, in which you say, "In reply, etc."
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He pointed to the paragraph beginning, "I have made the mistake which many girls make."
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Though the paragraph in question be clumsily expressed, yet it strictly announces its own intentions.
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Kate fetched the paper, and pointing to the paragraph, placed it in his hands.
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British Dictionary definitions for paragraph
paragraph
/ (ˈpærəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf) /
noun
(in a piece of writing) one of a series of subsections each usually devoted to one idea and each usually marked by the beginning of a new line, indentation, increased interlinear space, etc
printingthe character ¶, used as a reference mark or to indicate the beginning of a new paragraph
C16: from Medieval Latin paragraphus, from Greek paragraphos line drawing attention to part of a text, from paragraphein to write beside, from para-1 + graphein to write
How Long Should A Paragraph Be?So, what makes a convincing paragraph? Take writing on one paragraph at a time with this straightforward breakdown of how paragraphs are structured.
A basic unit of prose. It is usually composed of several sentences that together develop one central idea. The main sentence in a paragraph is called the topic sentence.