comma

noun

Definition of commanext
as in parenthesis

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Recent Examples of comma 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 Basically, this means a long, wavy line of thunderstorms—which can be seen trailing down from the low-pressure area in a classic comma shape on weather maps. — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026 Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness (no Oxford comma this is AMERICA 🦅🦅🦅) is premiering on June 26 on HBO. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Mar. 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
  • Top 10 best malls Here are USA Today readers’ 2026 selections of their favorite malls in the United States with last year’s rank in parentheses.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 15 June 2026
  • The amounts in parenthesis are for a batch of seven drinks.
    — Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Definition of parenthesis
Noun
  • Buchanan, was responding to a burglary report at a Verizon store across the street and noticed a broken window stained with blood, per the footage.
    — Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
  • By contrast, people who scored in the bottom 20% for sleep regularity went to sleep and woke up within a roughly three-hour window most days.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2026
Definition of window
Noun
  • The stock has eased slightly since then to around $171, a normal pause after such a steep run, and the level to watch is whether that old $130 breakout zone holds if the pullback extends.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 6 July 2026
  • Packages flow directly from dock doors into scanning, identification and stacking—with no pauses, no handoffs and no redesigns.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 6 July 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
  • The move comes as Meta simultaneously plans a new cloud computing business to sell excess capacity, even as investors remain skeptical of its roughly $145 billion capex forecast and the company's lag behind AI leaders OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 9 July 2026
  • The startup’s executives say their lag to enter the market is unlikely to make a meaningful difference, given new car models typically follow a three- to five-year product cycle.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
Definition of lag
Noun
  • Satellite data is available consistently but has a time lag.
    — Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • The time lag breaks momentum, and people who are unfamiliar with design begin to settle.
    — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 27 Apr. 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
  • All that and Muppets will be crammed into an 11-minute set curated by Martin on behalf of the anti-poverty group Global Citizen, which is producing this unprecedented musical interlude.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 9 July 2026
  • The literate era will prove to be a brief interlude between the oral and digital ages.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Definition of interlude

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