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punctuation

[puhngk-choo-ey-shuhn] / ˌpʌŋk tʃuˈeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
comma
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Fold in dill, chives and scallions — not as garnish, but as punctuation.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

When you type a question into your favorite AI chatbot, it turns it into tokens representing words, parts of words, and punctuation.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

“I probably can’t definitively explain it,” says writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal about that punctuation.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the imagined world her characters inhabit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Generous punctuation would also take the fun out of some of the psycholinguists’ garden path sentences, such as When Fred eats food gets thrown.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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