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The Em Dash Report

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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 corpus

By 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.

YearPostsEm dashesPer 1k words
20261681,4704.52
20251549694.74
2024602072.95
202343360.95
20221220.57
2021300.00