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title: "How do I remove em dashes from AI text?"
description: "You can do it by hand, swapping each dash for a comma, period, parentheses, or colon based on the job it was doing. That works, but it's slow on longer pieces.A faster option is to run the text..."
url: https://removeaitells.com/faq-items/how-do-i-remove-em-dashes-from-ai-text/
date: 2026-09-20
modified: 2026-09-20
author: "Remove AI Tells"
type: faq
lang: en
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# How do I remove em dashes from AI text?

You can do it by hand, swapping each dash for a comma, period, parentheses, or colon based on the job it was doing. That works, but it's slow on longer pieces.

A faster option is to run the text through a humanizer tool that finds the overused dashes and replaces them with punctuation that fits, keeping the meaning while dropping the tell.