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comma

[kom-uh] / ˈkɒm ə /
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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

Wes doesn’t place a comma in by accident.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

The State Opening of Parliament felt like a ceremonial comma.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023

They don’t walk like ordinary dogs, but leap and somersault like an apostrophe and comma.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros




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