comma
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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 they speak so fast, and talk about no punctuation — there’s not a period or a comma in the world to stop them once they start talking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
Then, it coils itself into a comma, bunching up its lower half.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
"It is my understanding that he liked to use the Oxford comma," she added.
From BBC ● May 9, 2024
Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
There are no quotation marks and few commas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The review refers to the "so-called 'rules-based international order'", putting the latter phrase in inverted commas: a kind of delegitimisation by punctuation mark.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
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
There’s an unwritten law that literary fiction set in the high plains be sturdy and simple — sentences firm as fence posts, commas hammered in as clean as barn nails.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
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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