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comma
noun as in pause
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Alongside one picture of Lord Mandelson with two women, whose faces are obscured, he writes about meeting Epstein's interesting – in inverted commas – friends.
That title seems to have lost a comma since Cannes, but who cares?
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.
The author has a curious relationship with commas; his sentences often run on to the point where you might find yourself looking for periods without finding them.
But they speak so fast, and talk about no punctuation — there’s not a period or a comma in the world to stop them once they start talking.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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