punctuation

Example Sentences

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Buffett said those matches are friendlier than their previous spars over punctuation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

When you type a question into your favorite AI chatbot, it turns it into tokens representing words, parts of words, and punctuation.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

Tomato, brightened with a final drizzle of garlic oil, like punctuation.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 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

It wasn’t torture, Shadow thought, just punctuation: I'm the bad cop.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman