comma
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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
The State Opening of Parliament felt like a ceremonial comma.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 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
The hill was shaped like a comma, large and round with a spur leading out and down: The Twentieth Maine was positioned along the spur, the other regiments curved around to the right.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
Vocabulary lists containing comma
Punctuation Matters
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Language and Grammar - Introductory
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