comma
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In his “Phonetic Punctuation,” Borge read a story aloud and gave every comma and period its own sound effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
I’m a comma, and I get to exist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024
So what happened to the comma in this process?
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
It has also been a career of resilience, though Beaumont jokingly refers to her dad's speech at her wedding in which he used that word in inverted commas to mean "stubborn" instead.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
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
The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
It was something to do with the question of whether commas should be placed inside brackets, or outside.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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