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
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
British grammarians will concede that sometimes the extra comma prevents confusion, as when there are other ands in the vicinity: I went to the chemist, Marks & Spencer, and NatWest.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
No document has been more examined than the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, down to the placement of commas, as if the terms meant anything to those jockeying over it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
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
Sherman-Palladino: I don’t have the time for commas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
“We put commas, not periods on everything—it’s never over.”
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025
The longest of these embedded clauses, the third and the last, are also with commas or with or.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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