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Recent Examples of comma
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.
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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
Laura is a proud former resident of the New Jersey shore, a competitive swimmer, and a fierce defender of the Oxford comma.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
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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
Laura is a proud former resident of the New Jersey shore, a competitive swimmer, and a fierce defender of the Oxford comma.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comma
Noun
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The notes — about 30 rows of capital letters, numbers, dashes and parentheses broken into sections — baffled investigators.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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Write down the points in parentheses next to your answer choice.—
Renessa Boley Layne,
Forbes.com,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The vast majority of those applications were submitted during the state's first priority window, which ran March 3-23.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Oct. 2025
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With parishioners running to hide or get out of the building, Carter and Max were pushed up against a glass window separating the chapel from the foyer, which led to an exit.—
Georgea Kovanis,
Freep.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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After battling Bukele in public and her own embassy in private, Manes announced a pause in diplomatic relations and left El Salvador in late 2021.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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His showing over the weekend, however, should at least give the Canucks some pause.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 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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When gaming, the TV has Auto Game Mode and Game Accelerator, which together, reduces input lag and leads to more responsive gameplay.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025
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Though still on the books, the protocols established for broadcasting in 1927 might seem to be a classic instance of technological-cultural lag.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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Unlike missiles or shells, a laser can engage targets at the speed of light with virtually no time lag between acquisition and interception.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Some critics say the ratings are not very accurate because of a time lag between the data collection and the publication of the scores, and some say the ratings are unfair to hospitals that have low income populations that tend to be sicker than hospitals in wealthier areas.—
Stephanie Innes,
AZCentral.com,
27 Aug. 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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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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Narrated by a Spanish sailor—also a hero of Lepanto—whom Don Quixote and Sancho Panza encounter in an inn, the short interlude is mostly composed of the daring story of the captive’s escape through the intercession of a lovely and beautiful Moorish woman named Zoraida.—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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Her ballads were torch-song interludes that could have knocked them dead in lounges a century ago.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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