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punctuation

[puhngk-choo-ey-shuhn] / ˌpʌŋk tʃuˈeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
comma
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Tomato, brightened with a final drizzle of garlic oil, like punctuation.

From Salon

On the plane, just a few pages into the novel, I was struck by Wharton’s sly deployment of punctuation.

From The Wall Street Journal

It did look like something I’d write to someone I’m close to, complete with a lack of punctuation and a self-deprecating LOL.

From The Wall Street Journal

For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the imagined world her characters inhabit.

From The Wall Street Journal

“A Long Game” provides a ranking of punctuation from weakest to strongest.

From The Wall Street Journal