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Recent Examples of comma
Pressing the comma key takes you to the start of an item, such as a large table or long list, while pressing the period key takes you to the end.
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Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine, 7 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
In the business world, a comma can carry enormous weight—especially in legal disputes.
—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
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Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine, 7 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
In the business world, a comma can carry enormous weight—especially in legal disputes.
—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
See All Example Sentences for comma
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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This is Ballard shedding his skin and trying to maximize a surprise Super Bowl window that appeared to be boarded up just 10 months ago, when his team missed the playoffs for a fourth straight season.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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The civil trial offers a window to some of the key details that will be presented during the criminal case next month against Parker, who faces eight counts of felony child neglect.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Tampa Bay’s defeat to New England gave the exec some pause on the Buccaneers, while the injury situation in San Francisco seems too much to overcome.—
Mike Sando,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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After a Boston appeals court ruled late Friday to not immediately intervene, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a ruling pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the appeals court rules on whether to issue a more lasting pause, the Associated Press said.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
10 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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The Recording Academy is well aware of the country lag, and even added a new country category this year, Best Traditional Country Album, which was the only new music category added for the 68th annual Grammy Awards.—
Melinda Newman,
Billboard,
7 Nov. 2025
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Duffy said there will be a lag of several days to a week before airlines and airports can return to normal operations.—
Michael Dorgan , Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 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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Long before humankind – that brief, busy interlude.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Being a quick study is an invaluable knack in repertory theatre, which is where Hopkins, with a two-year interlude for compulsory military service, kicked off his career.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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