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It's one of the best-known tells. On its own, a single dash proves nothing, since people use them too. The tell is the frequency. When almost every sentence leans on a dash to link ideas, the writing reads as machine-made.

Readers pick up on the flat rhythm, and detectors treat heavy dash use as one more signal among several.

Published September 20, 2026 | Em Dash AI Writing