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Recent Examples of comma
Starmer, a former human-rights lawyer, approaches every problem with an arid obsession with process rather than outcome—as if, when people follow every dot and comma of the rules, nothing bad can happen and no one should complain.
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Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
Here is a mom falling over cackling at the comma-rich DM her extremely funny daughter, Mandy Brooke, sent to Lil Wayne.
—Julie Klausner, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
The swim tracks were likely imprinted when the theropods scratched the bottom of the water with their middle toe, resulting in grooves that appear straight or curved, like a comma, the researchers noted.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2025
Silver streaked the black comma of his fringe.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
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Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
Here is a mom falling over cackling at the comma-rich DM her extremely funny daughter, Mandy Brooke, sent to Lil Wayne.
—Julie Klausner, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
The swim tracks were likely imprinted when the theropods scratched the bottom of the water with their middle toe, resulting in grooves that appear straight or curved, like a comma, the researchers noted.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2025
Silver streaked the black comma of his fringe.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comma
Noun
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Top 10 With records through Tuesday and previous rankings in parentheses.—
Bobby Narang,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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And that, Sachin explained, was the last Sachin had seen of Rajesh, who was killed in one of the most brutal assaults on an American base during the war, his life canceled in a weird parenthesis, a nowhere land between nations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Efforts are now underway to facilitate a second round of talks within this narrow window.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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From a window, Jude looked down on a scrubby expanse where multiple apartment buildings were under construction.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday Ukraine is ready to mirror any ceasefire steps, having earlier proposed to Russia a pause in attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure over the Orthodox Easter holiday.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Leon, in issuing the temporary pause, concluded that the preservationist group behind the legal challenge was likely to succeed because the president lacks the authority to build the ballroom without approval from Congress.—
Michael Kunzelman,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2026
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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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An El Niño releases heat stored in the upper ocean into the air, which causes global temperatures to rise, but with a few months lag time, said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
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That can mean a real lag in getting your refund or just getting closure on issues your return raises for the tax agencies.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2026
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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
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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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One bizarre, nearly 7-minute interlude featured Susan Sarandon playing an older version of Carpenter, delivering a wistful monologue about what a future niece might think of her.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2026
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Carpenter’s Girl Meets World co-star Fogelmanis suddenly appeared towards the end of Sarandon’s interlude, playing a tired waiter who was trying to clock out for an emergency.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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