comma
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It was the most Iranian sentence I could imagine: despair and hope in the same breath, separated by a comma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
That title seems to have lost a comma since Cannes, but who cares?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
Then, it coils itself into a comma, bunching up its lower half.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
The State Opening of Parliament felt like a ceremonial comma.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
The hill was shaped like a comma, large and round with a spur leading out and down: The Twentieth Maine was positioned along the spur, the other regiments curved around to the right.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
How barmy is it to fly thousands of people half-way around the world to sit in giant air-conditioned tents to argue about commas, and interpretations of convoluted words?
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
It’s less jarring than parentheses but a bigger interruption than commas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
“We put commas, not periods on everything—it’s never over.”
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025
There’s an unwritten law that literary fiction set in the high plains be sturdy and simple — sentences firm as fence posts, commas hammered in as clean as barn nails.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
How could I write letters without commas? she asked.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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