comma
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“Early punctuation focused on the contours of the sentence, giving us the comma, colon, and period,” Ms. Hazrat writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
That title seems to have lost a comma since Cannes, but who cares?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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
Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, 1839 No wonder feelings run high about the comma.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
It’s less jarring than parentheses but a bigger interruption than commas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
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
He wanted you to think that the only reason he was lousy at writing compositions was because he stuck all the commas in the wrong place.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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