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
"I agree with much of what he said, but not absolutely every word and dot and comma of it," he added.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025
Then, it coils itself into a comma, bunching up its lower half.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
Wes doesn’t place a comma in by accident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break— these were all done on purpose.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
The review refers to the "so-called 'rules-based international order'", putting the latter phrase in inverted commas: a kind of delegitimisation by punctuation mark.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
It’s less jarring than parentheses but a bigger interruption than commas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
Unlike periods and commas, em dashes aren’t integral to sentence structure; they’re a considered choice that can, but by no means have to, take the place of commas, parentheses and semicolons.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025
Sherman-Palladino: I don’t have the time for commas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
Thurber, by self-appointed virtuous contrast, saw commas as so many upturned office chairs unhelpfully hurled down the wide-open corridor of readability.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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