comma

The history of the humble comma, Paul Simon in Africa, Eric Hobsbawm’s faith and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

But, comma, we also are doing that for the queer experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

"I agree with much of what he said, but not absolutely every word and dot and comma of it," he added.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025

Then, it coils itself into a comma, bunching up its lower half.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

It’s for times when you want something stronger than a comma but not quite so final as a period.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

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

There’s an unwritten law that literary fiction set in the high plains be sturdy and simple — sentences firm as fence posts, commas hammered in as clean as barn nails.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024

I mean if you're good at writing compositions and somebody starts talking about commas.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger