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Recent Examples of comma
Here is a mom falling over cackling at the comma-rich DM her extremely funny daughter, Mandy Brooke, sent to Lil Wayne.
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Julie Klausner, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
The swim tracks were likely imprinted when the theropods scratched the bottom of the water with their middle toe, resulting in grooves that appear straight or curved, like a comma, the researchers noted.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2025
Silver streaked the black comma of his fringe.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
Wedge heels with an inverted curve—a more extreme, exaggerated version of the comma heel—have returned in a big way.
—María Diez, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
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Julie Klausner, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
The swim tracks were likely imprinted when the theropods scratched the bottom of the water with their middle toe, resulting in grooves that appear straight or curved, like a comma, the researchers noted.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2025
Silver streaked the black comma of his fringe.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
Wedge heels with an inverted curve—a more extreme, exaggerated version of the comma heel—have returned in a big way.
—María Diez, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comma
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And that, Sachin explained, was the last Sachin had seen of Rajesh, who was killed in one of the most brutal assaults on an American base during the war, his life canceled in a weird parenthesis, a nowhere land between nations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
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Each writer’s personal ranking will appear in parentheses next to their name.—
Johnny Flores Jr,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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The presence of gases such as methane, ammonia, and water vapor may further stabilize these environments, significantly extending the potential window for habitability.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Mar. 2026
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Plesner says that a narrow window in early September, just before the monthlong holiday season, looks like the best time for Netanyahu to hold the vote.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Mar. 2026
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The pause applies to Iranian oil loaded on ships as of Friday and is set to end April 19.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Mar. 2026
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But if your friend has no idea what your partner’s talking about, that could be reason to take pause, Charlot said.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
21 Mar. 2026
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With National Socialism from 1933, however, a caesura occurred that is still unparalleled today.—
Uwe Westphal,
Sun Sentinel,
16 July 2024
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During the concert Friday night, the important silences between movements — caesuras central to the impact of the music — were consistently broken by applause.—
Luke Schulze,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Mar. 2023
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Outside experts point to a variety of explanations for the lag.—
Theresa Gaffney,
STAT,
17 Mar. 2026
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Logistical challenges and market forces create a lag time in the release of reserve oil, meaning the move cannot address an immediate supply shock such as the shipping concerns in the Strait of Hormuz, Tom Seng, a professor of energy finance at Texas Christian University, told ABC News.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
16 Mar. 2026
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Since there was no time lag, the researchers argued that so fast a response had to be because the interior was liquid.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Dec. 2025
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The time lag, barely noticeable, was 17 milliseconds.—
Tim Hornyak,
IEEE Spectrum,
16 Dec. 2025
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The interspace is enchanted mainly in its normalcy.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
17 June 2024
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Many of the bacteria at least partially survived, which helps to test one of the parameters for the theory of panspermia—that life on Earth originated somewhere else and was brought here on an asteroid or other interspace body.—
Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
14 Sep. 2020
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Then again, as Emerson makes clear over and over again on Written Into Changes, life is nothing but a short interlude between being born and dying.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
21 Mar. 2026
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Where Beyoncé added poetic interludes between songs, in Songs from the Hole, the audience learns about Jacobs' story and how his music spiritually liberates him while simultaneously being among the reasons officials cited for not granting him parole.—
Kara Frame,
NPR,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 24 Mar. 2026.
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