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
In a letter to critic George Jean Nathan, he described the conclusion as “merely the comma at the end of a gaudy introductory clause, with the body of the sentence still unwritten.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
The State Opening of Parliament felt like a ceremonial comma.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023
On his website, he described himself as a “militant bicyclist” and “a proponent of the singular they, the Oxford comma, and pre-Elon Twitter.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2023
More than any other mark, the comma draws our attention to the mixed origins of modern punctuation, and its consequent mingling of two quite distinct functions: 1.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
Vocabulary lists containing comma
Punctuation Matters
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Language and Grammar - Introductory
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