Media and commentary
WIRED
0.9× since 2022www.wired.com · 1,440 posts · 2.1M words · Feb 2018 to Aug 2026
65 of 103 months in that span carried a post, 38 none.
Per 1k words, 2024–now
4.08
Per 1k words, 2018–2022
4.54
Em dashes counted
9,110
Posts with at least one
88%
Em dashes per post
Monthly3.00
12-month average5.37
WIRED, 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 | 222 | 1,101 | 4.02 | 0.10 | 81% |
| 2025 | 279 | 1,557 | 4.28 | 0.11 | 86% |
| 2024 | 272 | 1,692 | 3.95 | 0.09 | 89% |
| 2023 | 271 | 1,965 | 4.68 | 0.08 | 93% |
| 2022 | 292 | 2,127 | 5.00 | 0.09 | 93% |
| 2021 | 100 | 650 | 3.87 | 0.70 | 81% |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 | 1.21 | 0.00 | 100% |
| 2019 | 1 | 4 | 2.01 | 0.00 | 100% |
| 2018 | 2 | 11 | 1.34 | 0.00 | 100% |