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
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
Here’s how to get out of some of the most common comma complications.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
Also, he said, she added way too many commas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
“We put commas, not periods on everything—it’s never over.”
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 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
If you listened closely it was possible to hear the dashes and commas in his speech, even the colons and semicolons.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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