comma

“I hope that’s the direction I’ll keep going, to be a little more easygoing,” he says, “and less precious about every single comma and full stop.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

“Early punctuation focused on the contours of the sentence, giving us the comma, colon, and period,” Ms. Hazrat writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Marcelino’s condition improved but Diaz’s health declined exponentially to the point that he fell into a comma and was put on a list to receive a liver transplant, according to news reports.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

"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

Well, yes; but you will be entertained to discover that there is a significant complication in the case of the comma.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

No document has been more examined than the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, down to the placement of commas, as if the terms meant anything to those jockeying over it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

How barmy is it to fly thousands of people half-way around the world to sit in giant air-conditioned tents to argue about commas, and interpretations of convoluted words?

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

“We put commas, not periods on everything—it’s never over.”

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025

The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

A nonrestrictive relative clause is set offby commas, dashes, or parentheses, and expresses a comment from the peanut gallery, as in The pair of shoes, which cost five thousand dollars, was hideous.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker