comma
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The history of the humble comma, Paul Simon in Africa, Eric Hobsbawm’s faith and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“First you say ‘comma,’ like a comma in a sentence,” said Amara Ajagu.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024
Then, it coils itself into a comma, bunching up its lower half.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
"It is my understanding that he liked to use the Oxford comma," she added.
From BBC ● May 9, 2024
When in doubt, look it up. • a comma or period.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
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
His paragraphs flow like the water he admires: sometimes tranquil and easy, other times a tumbling, mixing, effervescent torrent directed by commas, never promising a full stop.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
One is a flat branching structure, in which a series of mostly uncomplicated clauses are concatenated side by side with and or with commas.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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