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Recent Examples of comma
In the business world, a comma can carry enormous weight—especially in legal disputes.
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Jason Richmond, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
The semicolon—written as a combination of a colon and a comma—is meant to connect two related ideas that could each stand alone as a sentence.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
This includes, but is not limited to: exclamation points, question marks, commas, hyphens, colons, apostrophes.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 May 2025
That pitcher would preferably sign a contract without too many zeros and commas.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 19 May 2025
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Jason Richmond, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
The semicolon—written as a combination of a colon and a comma—is meant to connect two related ideas that could each stand alone as a sentence.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
This includes, but is not limited to: exclamation points, question marks, commas, hyphens, colons, apostrophes.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 May 2025
That pitcher would preferably sign a contract without too many zeros and commas.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comma
Noun
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Preseason Big 12 women’s basketball coaches poll (First-place votes in parentheses) 1.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Oct. 2025
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Fastest to 100 Million Streams in Japan (Weeks to reach the milestone in parentheses) 1.—
Billboard Japan,
Billboard,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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When using the fireplace, reduce heat loss by opening dampers in the bottom of the firebox (if provided) or open the nearest window slightly – approximately 1 inch – and close doors leading into the room.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
29 Oct. 2025
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Several government vehicles were damaged, and a federal contract employee was injured as a rock went through and objects, including objects on fire from an overpass on her vehicle window, shattering the glass and striking her, Essayli said.—
Louis Casiano , Matt Finn,
FOXNews.com,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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On Friday, two federal judges ruled that this pause is likely unlawful.—
Jennifer Ludden,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
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Some guests at the Sunday lunch said the pause had not hit them yet — recipients get their benefits at different points in the month, not always on the first day.—
Hope Karnopp,
jsonline.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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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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This stance makes sense given that labor statistics are lagging economic indicators and monetary policy works with a lag.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
29 Oct. 2025
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Upload speeds and latency lag behind strong 5G, and performance can suffer under heavy tree cover or in congested areas where mobile/RV traffic is deprioritized.—
Roxanne Downer,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 2025
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The results were averaged, but researchers also note that the findings may not be a precise reflection of what's currently on offer from the companies given the time lag.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 Oct. 2025
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The researchers from Fudan University’s State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems and the College of Integrated Circuits and Micro-nano Electronics aimed to overcome this time lag by embedding 2D flash technology directly into CMOS platforms.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 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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The book, probably still my pick as King’s scariest novel if not his best, is overpacked with additional flashbacks and interludes that could have been fodder for multiple seasons of television.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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Instead, its gambit is to inflate the interlude chapters from King’s novel, which trace the town’s cursed history with its resident evil and were omitted from Muschietti’s films.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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