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
Marcelino’s condition improved but Diaz’s health declined exponentially to the point that he fell into a comma and was put on a list to receive a liver transplant, according to news reports.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026
"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
But don’t use a comma after a quotation that ends with an exclamation point or a question mark.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Also, he said, she added way too many commas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 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
The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
Flies, titchy as commas, got into our eyes and nostrils.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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