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Recent Examples of comma
It’s also used in complex lists to separate items that might contain commas already.
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Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
None of the jazz conversation without full stops and commas.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 28 May 2025
In contrast to Johnson’s emphatic remarks, comma, Geragos was circumspec and measured in her own presentation.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 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
None of the jazz conversation without full stops and commas.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 28 May 2025
In contrast to Johnson’s emphatic remarks, comma, Geragos was circumspec and measured in her own presentation.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 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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But not all peace is equal, and this strange, eventful history offers many reasons to suspect that the present peace with Iran will be a brief parenthesis in the long story of mutual enmity.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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Top 10 With records through Monday and previous rankings in parentheses.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The river vessels’ Skylight Infinite Balcony Suites, for example, will feature the retractable windows that transform part of the cabin into a balcony, along with a ceiling window.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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But signing leading players from Forest, Villa, Brentford, Stuttgart and the mighty Milan in one transfer window looks pretty significant, too.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Judges have said Trump can extend the pause pending more appeals.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Aug. 2025
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When contacted one week ago by ABC News, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said there is no communications pause and that the certification process is moving forward.—
Liz Neporent,
ABC News,
26 Aug. 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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Institutional interest has been shifting toward Solana in recent weeks as bitcoin and ether lag.—
Tanaya Macheel,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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While Mare blossoms quickly under his guidance, the rest lag doltishly behind, using journalism as a pretext to confront an ex, or getting duped by some teens into writing a credulous account of a preposterous youth trend.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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That meant making more editorial judgments about cutting, especially with the in-studio segments that had some time lag to them, like Paul Robalino’s Operation Snake Skin or Erika Ishii’s offer of side-shave real estate.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
15 July 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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Ann and her acolytes journey to America to find more followers—a portion of the tale that feels more adrift but then finds its footing, largely thanks to another musical interlude.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
1 Sep. 2025
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Driving interludes are another binding motif.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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