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comma

noun

Definition of commanext
as in parenthesis

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Recent Examples of comma In 2008, the Arizona Republic reported, two visitors to Desert View Watchtower received a yearlong ban from national parks for using a marker and correction fluid to change the text on a sign — moving an apostrophe and adding a comma. — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 2 July 2026 The ant, curled like a comma in my palm. — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026 Remember, list all your teams in order from most wins to fewest and separated by commas. — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026 Square Lake looks suspiciously like a comma. — Mark Glende, Twin Cities, 3 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for comma
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comma
  1. parenthesis
  2. window
  3. pause
  4. caesura
  5. lag
  6. time lag
  7. interspace
  8. interlude
Noun
  • Numbers in parentheses indicate passage numbers within each chapter.
    — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026
  • All figures in parentheses below are current estimates for those crop years in million bales.
    — SJ Guest Editorial, Footwear News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of parenthesis
Noun
  • By the time of the witch trial, the sacred building stood stripped of its roofing and outer masonry—a fleshless skeleton; its giant west window glassless, miming a stone scream.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • That equates to removing the electricity demand of roughly 50,000 window air conditioners from the grid or powering approximately 34,000 households for four hours each day during peak demand.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of window
Noun
  • Then someone from finance asks what the company got for the money, and the honest answer is a pause.
    — Boris Dzhingarov, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Try the cheap partner-side fixes first, match the mid-tier device to the type of snoring and escalate to a doctor the moment breathing pauses enter the picture.
    — Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of pause
Noun
  • For instance, the caesura that is commonly found at the center of each line of Anglo-Saxon verse conveyed a meaning to native speakers that is lost to us today.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2025
  • With National Socialism from 1933, however, a caesura occurred that is still unparalleled today.
    — Uwe Westphal, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
Definition of caesura
Noun
  • Real-time payroll and instant payment rails, including on-demand accessibility to earned earnings, are reducing the daily lag that has characterized banking for centuries.
    — Antoine Sallis, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Makowski’s lag putt came up 10 feet short, but the senior calmly drained the slight breaking putt for the par to win the title.
    — John Lemon, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of lag
Noun
  • This medical inertia partly reflects the time lag involved in disseminating findings.
    — Paula Span, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
  • However, experts told CNBC that a natural time lag exists when price changes transmit from crude oil to retail gasoline.
    — , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of time lag
Noun
  • After disc removal, the resulting interspace requires robust reconstruction to restore height, alignment, and stability.
    — Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes.com, 8 May 2026
  • 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
Definition of interspace
Noun
  • That’s namely all the interlude chapters — police reports, 911 calls, courtroom transcripts, newspaper clippings, and scientific research into the telekinetic gene that collectively teases a larger world.
    — Entertainment Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026
  • This distasteful interlude cuts back to Reacher and Green continuing to interrogate Ahlquist.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of interlude

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