comma
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“I hope that’s the direction I’ll keep going, to be a little more easygoing,” he says, “and less precious about every single comma and full stop.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
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
Then, it coils itself into a comma, bunching up its lower half.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
But as we shall see in chapter 6, using a comma to separate a subject from its predicate or a verb from one of its complements is among the most grievous sins of mispunctuation.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Also, he said, she added way too many commas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
Alongside one picture of Lord Mandelson with two women, whose faces are obscured, he writes about meeting Epstein's interesting – in inverted commas – friends.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 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
“We put commas, not periods on everything—it’s never over.”
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025
It was something to do with the question of whether commas should be placed inside brackets, or outside.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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