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Recent Examples of comma
In the business world, a comma can carry enormous weight—especially in legal disputes.
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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
This includes, but is not limited to: exclamation points, question marks, commas, hyphens, colons, apostrophes.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 May 2025
That pitcher would preferably sign a contract without too many zeros and commas.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 19 May 2025
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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
This includes, but is not limited to: exclamation points, question marks, commas, hyphens, colons, apostrophes.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 May 2025
That pitcher would preferably sign a contract without too many zeros and commas.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comma
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The notes — about 30 rows of capital letters, numbers, dashes and parentheses broken into sections — baffled investigators.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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Write down the points in parentheses next to your answer choice.—
Renessa Boley Layne,
Forbes.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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One is the Elliot Anderson room and the other, where the window opens towards the first-team campus a couple of fields away, is the Lewis Miley room.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Even as the young man attempts to ignore the din of city life outside his window, his fear of losing his vanity is ultimately what disrupts his fantasies.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
15 Oct. 2025
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The American president was in his element, often departing from prepared remarks in an address that extended for an hour in front of a crowd that was more than happy to applaud at every pause.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
13 Oct. 2025
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Sometimes, a long pause in stalking behavior is a tactic designed to create more fear by allowing the victim to drop their guard before restarting the behavior, said Aims Babich, director of survivor services at SafeHouse Denver, an emergency shelter for survivors of domestic violence.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
13 Oct. 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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Until measured inflation catches up to actual market rents, there’s a significant lag, and that lag is finally closed.—
Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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While Israeli officials had anticipated some logistical lag, families of the dead expressed frustration that only four of the 28 bodies had been repatriated as of Monday.—
Barney Henderson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 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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Some critics say the ratings are not very accurate because of a time lag between the data collection and the publication of the scores, and some say the ratings are unfair to hospitals that have low income populations that tend to be sicker than hospitals in wealthier areas.—
Stephanie Innes,
AZCentral.com,
27 Aug. 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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The series will essentially explore the origins of Pennywise, using the book’s five interludes as a blueprint.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Oct. 2025
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Still, the season hits several hallmarks that have come to define the series, including warped timelines and unexpected musical interludes.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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