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
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
To omit the comma after “detour” would have the sentence suddenly coasting at speed again instead of slowing to the final halt.
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
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
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 author has a curious relationship with commas; his sentences often run on to the point where you might find yourself looking for periods without finding them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025
And she held out a box of sugar-coated question marks, periods, commas, and exclamation points.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
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