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Why `\hyphenation` does not work?

pdfTeX and XeTeX -- but not LuaTeX -- possess the following feature/bug: The very first word in a (syntactic) paragraph does not get hyphenated. In TeX syntax, a "paragraph" is of ...
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Is there a way to disable hyphenation in the preamble for a word containing dashes

You could set \exhyphenpenalty=10000 Which would disable all hyphenation at an explicit - within the scope of that setting. If you use luatex you could do a single word globally, as it allows a ...
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Issue with Polyglossia hyphenation

By default there is a high penalty (demerits) for having a hyphen on the penultimate line of a paragraph. So there is a lower cost to stretching the space if you lower the \finalhyphendemerits then ...
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How to avoid hyphenations in important paragraphs like Funding Statements in a double-column format document (IEEE papers)?

If I don't want hyphenations in some words such as "under", "Programme", "Excellence", "Operational" etc., how do I instruct LaTeX not to hyphenate these words ...
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beamer + polyglossia: manual hyphenation

As @UlrikeFischer already said in the comments, the warning indicates an overfull vertical box. In your case this means that the content of your slide is too tall to fit on the frame without ...
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No hyphenation patterns (spanish)

After doing a clean installation of TeX Live, and installing all necessary packages via Arch Linux packages and not tlmgr (including https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/texlive-langspanish/, as @...
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Issue with Polyglossia hyphenation

The problem is in \finalhyphendemerits, as shown by David. But I propose a different strategy, namely to add \finalhyphendemerits=0 to the definition of \sloppy. Under \sloppy the paragraphs are ...
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