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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

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

"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

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

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




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