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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

"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

Wes doesn’t place a comma in by accident.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

On his website, he described himself as a “militant bicyclist” and “a proponent of the singular they, the Oxford comma, and pre-Elon Twitter.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2023

If a comma is a yield sign and a period is a stop sign, the semicolon is a flashing red—one of those lights you drive through after a brief pause.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner




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