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Recent Examples of comma
My new thing is teaching people about something called the Cambridge comma.
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Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Cassatt moves through her paintings without the touching neuroses of a James, without his curling smoke trails of clauses or qualifying commas.
—Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 27 June 2024
My statement was more of a comma than an exclamation in our dialogue.
—Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen, Longreads, 11 June 2024
There’s an unwritten law that literary fiction set in the high plains be sturdy and simple — sentences firm as fence posts, commas hammered in as clean as barn nails.
—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
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Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Cassatt moves through her paintings without the touching neuroses of a James, without his curling smoke trails of clauses or qualifying commas.
—Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 27 June 2024
My statement was more of a comma than an exclamation in our dialogue.
—Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen, Longreads, 11 June 2024
There’s an unwritten law that literary fiction set in the high plains be sturdy and simple — sentences firm as fence posts, commas hammered in as clean as barn nails.
—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comma
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Beer names are listed in parentheses next to each brewery.Bradley Hohulin, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Oct. 2024
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Finally, the comet's discoverer is listed in parenthesis.Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
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Face retouching tools are conveniently accessible in the Face Swap window.PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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But the window was extended by a lack of dead balls after Jokic went to the scorer’s table, and Denver stole back five consecutive points from Watson and Strawther.Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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Ahmed said that as long as the platforms’ approach to false and misleading content remain the same, a temporary pause on political ads during election week is likely to have little impact.Clare Duffy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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The latest: In response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests orchestrated by Coinbase related to the pause letters, the FDIC responded with the descriptions of 23 different communications entered into evidence last week in a case over the records.Brady Dale, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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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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Testing its input lag with an HDFury Diva HDMI matrix, the Bravia 9 shows a latency of 11 milliseconds.PCMAG, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
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As leases are set in years, there’s a lag between a decision to reduce space or move out.James Simms, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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These days, there is little to no time lag between making environmental commitments, doing the work to deliver on them and reporting on your progress.Jody L. Bickel, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Estimation of the time lags from historical data is confounded by structural changes in the economy.Bill Conerly, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
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The interspace is enchanted mainly in its normalcy.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
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These songs mess with interspace.Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2021
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These interludes seem to mark the shaky dividing line between terror and solace, as George tirelessly makes his way back to his mother.Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
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The backstage interlude evokes both the glamour of movies and the glamour of making movies — how both the product and production in Hollywood is aspirational.Kathryn Vandervalk, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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