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Recent Examples of comma
Wedge heels with an inverted curve—a more extreme, exaggerated version of the comma heel—have returned in a big way.
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María Diez, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
But no one really cared about pitch counts in that era, which could help explain why Koufax retired in the fall of ’66 at the age of 30, having pitched his last two seasons with an arthritic condition in a left elbow that Scully once remarked looked like a comma.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 8 Sep. 2025
Cooking by weight would fix this, but since volume is the American default, the comma denotes an important difference.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
The comma conundrum reminds us that in the world of executive leadership, success often hinges on the smallest details.
—Jason Richmond, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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María Diez, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
But no one really cared about pitch counts in that era, which could help explain why Koufax retired in the fall of ’66 at the age of 30, having pitched his last two seasons with an arthritic condition in a left elbow that Scully once remarked looked like a comma.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 8 Sep. 2025
Cooking by weight would fix this, but since volume is the American default, the comma denotes an important difference.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
The comma conundrum reminds us that in the world of executive leadership, success often hinges on the smallest details.
—Jason Richmond, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comma
Noun
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Top 10 With records through Monday and previous rankings in parentheses.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
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Here is the Hurricanes’ complete 2026 schedule with 2025 records in parentheses.—
Adam Lichtenstein,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Several of these can be grouped together near a window in your kitchen, or even outdoors.—
Asia London Palomba,
The Spruce,
8 Feb. 2026
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The draft is bursting with linebackers, but again, the championship window, remember?—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
8 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The pact with Washington, Oregon and four Native American tribes had allowed for a pause in the litigation.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Feb. 2026
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This week's talks in Abu Dhabi concluded without a major breakthrough but Russia and Ukraine agreed to exchange 157 prisoners of war each, resuming such swaps after a five-month pause.—
Yuliia Dysa,
USA Today,
7 Feb. 2026
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
Noun
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What looked like ideological bias was, more often, temporal lag.—
Charles Edward Gehrke,
Fortune,
9 Feb. 2026
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On top of all this tech floats a layer of lag.—
Jason Fried,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Since there was no time lag, the researchers argued that so fast a response had to be because the interior was liquid.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Dec. 2025
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The time lag, barely noticeable, was 17 milliseconds.—
Tim Hornyak,
IEEE Spectrum,
16 Dec. 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
Noun
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Lady Gaga’s guest interlude presented the perfect chance for a costume change.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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Like Mind of Mine, which features an interlude performed in Urdu, Konnakol will spotlight Zayn’s cultural background.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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