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Phillips makes a good point. But he overlooks the fact that his sample is extremely small and biased. Outside of professional writers and poets, few people use em-dashes. When my freshman writers turn in papers full of them, it really is a sign that they may have over-relied on Claude (or Mistral or Llama or Chat or Gemini or Copilot or…).