comma
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In his “Phonetic Punctuation,” Borge read a story aloud and gave every comma and period its own sound effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
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’m a comma, and I get to exist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024
Then, it coils itself into a comma, bunching up its lower half.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
If the sentence continues after the question, don’t use a comma after the question mark.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
There are no quotation marks and few commas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Adds Giamatti, “It’s incredibly specific. You follow his punctuation. The commas matter in his writing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
The review refers to the "so-called 'rules-based international order'", putting the latter phrase in inverted commas: a kind of delegitimisation by punctuation mark.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
“We put commas, not periods on everything—it’s never over.”
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025
I told her I thought she meant all the periods had to have tails and be called commas.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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