comma
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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
In a letter to critic George Jean Nathan, he described the conclusion as “merely the comma at the end of a gaudy introductory clause, with the body of the sentence still unwritten.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
The State Opening of Parliament felt like a ceremonial comma.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
On his website, he described himself as a “militant bicyclist” and “a proponent of the singular they, the Oxford comma, and pre-Elon Twitter.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
The rule here is that ±e comma is correct if it can be replaced by the word and or or.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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
It’s less jarring than parentheses but a bigger interruption than commas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
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
In these landscapes, naturalism and abstraction often battle to a pulsating draw by means of a magnified, or coarsened pointillism that recalls Seurat in its mosaic-like array of dots, dashes and commas.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
Flies, titchy as commas, got into our eyes and nostrils.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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