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comma

[kom-uh] / ˈkɒm ə /
NOUN
pause
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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

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

Wes doesn’t place a comma in by accident.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Had him born in Dunfrie, wherever the hell that is, and in the space for his name the fool wrote, ‘Dead’ comma ‘Macon.’

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison




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