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
I’m a comma, and I get to exist.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024
Then, it coils itself into a comma, bunching up its lower half.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
The State Opening of Parliament felt like a ceremonial comma.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023
Petey curled into a fuzzy comma when I put the leaves in his jar.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing comma
Punctuation Matters
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Language and Grammar - Introductory
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