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Recent Examples of comma
None of the jazz conversation without full stops and commas.
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 28 May 2025
Gemini took care with its enjambment, carefully crafting stanzas, but didn’t use punctuation outside of periods and commas.
—PC Magazine, 6 May 2025
Note that there is no comma—no Oxford comma, that is, beloved of this publication and often scorned elsewhere—before the conjunction.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Then there’s a blur again, and a receipt with a comma.
—Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2025
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 28 May 2025
Gemini took care with its enjambment, carefully crafting stanzas, but didn’t use punctuation outside of periods and commas.
—PC Magazine, 6 May 2025
Note that there is no comma—no Oxford comma, that is, beloved of this publication and often scorned elsewhere—before the conjunction.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Then there’s a blur again, and a receipt with a comma.
—Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comma
Noun
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No one inside this parenthesis imagined how much of a threat artificial intelligence would soon pose to the conversational internet.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
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The stats in parentheses represent the quarterbacks’ camp-long performance.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
9 June 2025
Noun
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Once you’re safely stopped, don’t roll down your window right away.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 June 2025
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That means every option should be on the table, and nothing should be off-limits in the quest to reopen their championship window.—
Brian Sampson,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
Noun
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Thrillers work well on TV because episodic television has cliffhangers and pauses built into its structure that actually escalate or elevate the mystery component of a story.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
20 June 2025
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His ability to go both ways prompts a moment of pause from Fulham defender Calvin Bassey, and Mbeumo takes the ball onto his weaker right foot and scores across goal.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
Noun
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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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LinkedIn also stands out for leveraging its massive employment data warehouse for studies on disabled workforces, which have evidenced promotion lags and other patterns for people with disabilities.—
Alan Schwarz,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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There will likely be a lag before the US can reclaim its place in the imaginations of globally mobile, ambitious students.—
Lydiah Kemunto Bosire,
semafor.com,
16 June 2025
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Although this policy assumption will tend to ameliorate GDP deceleration, monetary policy acts with a significant time lag.—
Bill Conerly,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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But does the time lag tend to produce results that are outdated or no longer relevant?—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
Noun
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The interspace is enchanted mainly in its normalcy.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
17 June 2024
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These songs mess with interspace.—
Sheldon Pearce,
The New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2021
Noun
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Woven into an affecting, predominantly string score by Oliver Coates, the music interludes are without exception sublime, including those sung tunefully but with more gusto than vocal skill by O’Connor and those invested with full-throated feeling by Mescal.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
21 May 2025
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Essentially, Song created these interludes to expand the world of Materialists.—
Ilana Kaplan,
People.com,
14 June 2025
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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