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
“First you say ‘comma,’ like a comma in a sentence,” said Amara Ajagu.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024
Then, it coils itself into a comma, bunching up its lower half.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
The State Opening of Parliament felt like a ceremonial comma.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
You need only the first comma if the clause comes at the end.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Also, he said, she added way too many commas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 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
In these landscapes, naturalism and abstraction often battle to a pulsating draw by means of a magnified, or coarsened pointillism that recalls Seurat in its mosaic-like array of dots, dashes and commas.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
His mouth was tiny and his eyebrows were like commas, little flicks on his forehead.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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