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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.

Published September 20, 2026 | Em Dash AI Writing