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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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Aidan shattering Carrie’s window while trying to romantically throw stones…is this a sign?—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
4 July 2025
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Pedestrians walking along Broadway were pausing to admire paintings that are part of The Courthouse Gallery, a public art exhibit installed earlier this year inside a series of windows along the first floor of the federal courthouse.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 July 2025
Noun
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Republican leaders and tech industry groups have argued that a multiyear pause on state-level AI regulation is essential to giving U.S. companies the space to innovate and maintain an edge over China.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
1 July 2025
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California’s largest public sector union secured a one-year pause to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s return-to-office order just days before state workers are expected to begin working in person four days a week.—
William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
30 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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Another reason for Nvidia's recent lag may be that the stock has been a victim of its own success, said Gene Munster, co-founder of Deepwater Asset Management.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
29 June 2025
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Companies that once defaulted to offshore staff augmentation in distant regions like Southeast Asia or Eastern Europe began facing performance issues, not just due to distance and time zones, but also regulatory uncertainty and communication lags.—
Luis Peralta,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
Noun
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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 9 Jul. 2025.
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