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comma

[kom-uh] / ˈkɒm ə /
NOUN
pause
Synonyms


Example Sentences

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How barmy is it to fly thousands of people half-way around the world to sit in giant air-conditioned tents to argue about commas, and interpretations of convoluted words?

From BBC

It’s less jarring than parentheses but a bigger interruption than commas.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

That title seems to have lost a comma since Cannes, but who cares?

From Los Angeles Times

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