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Anthropic
www.anthropic.com · 440 posts · 642k words · May 2021 to Sep 2026
57 of 65 months in that span carried a post, 8 none. 1 loaded without countable prose.
Per 1k words, 2024–now
4.41
Per 1k words, 2018–2022
0.56
Em dashes counted
2,684
Posts with at least one
76%
Em dashes per post
Monthly8.50
12-month average8.51
Anthropic, latest month in the corpusBy year
En dashes are counted alongside as a control: if em dashes climb while en dashes hold flat, that is a change in writing style rather than a change in typography.
| Year | Posts | Em dashes | Per 1k words | En per 1k | Share of posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 168 | 1,470 | 4.52 | 0.25 | 93% |
| 2025 | 154 | 969 | 4.74 | 0.27 | 83% |
| 2024 | 60 | 207 | 2.95 | 0.33 | 62% |
| 2023 | 43 | 36 | 0.95 | 1.26 | 28% |
| 2022 | 12 | 2 | 0.57 | 0.00 | 8% |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0% |