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
“First you say ‘comma,’ like a comma in a sentence,” said Amara Ajagu.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024
"It is my understanding that he liked to use the Oxford comma," she added.
From BBC ● May 9, 2024
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
There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
Also, he said, she added way too many commas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
Alongside one picture of Lord Mandelson with two women, whose faces are obscured, he writes about meeting Epstein's interesting – in inverted commas – friends.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 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
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
She told me about commas, for instance, long before I took punctuation seriously.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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