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Recent Examples of comma
The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
On Sunday, Inside Out 2 crossed $1 billion in ticket sales worldwide, becoming this year’s highest-grossing film and the first since Barbie to join the three comma club.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 4 July 2024
After her name, there is frequently only a comma and the description: the fiancé of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.
—Laura Trujillo, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2024
People who know me can understand my position on things based on punctuation marks, my commas.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
On Sunday, Inside Out 2 crossed $1 billion in ticket sales worldwide, becoming this year’s highest-grossing film and the first since Barbie to join the three comma club.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 4 July 2024
After her name, there is frequently only a comma and the description: the fiancé of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.
—Laura Trujillo, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2024
People who know me can understand my position on things based on punctuation marks, my commas.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comma
Noun
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Top 10 With records through Monday and previous rankings in parentheses.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2025
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San Diego Union-Tribune Girls Basketball Rankings First-place votes in parentheses; points awarded on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis Team; Record; Points; Last 1.—
Steve Brand,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The family has a scenic view of the town from nearly every window in their apartment.—
Celia Fernandez,
CNBC,
18 Jan. 2025
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More news: Blue Jays Make Trade to Help Sign Roki Sasaki That left the Dodgers and Blue Jays as the two finalists to sign Sasaki with one week left in his 45-day window to negotiate a major league contract.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The previous agreement, in November 2023, furnished only a pause.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2025
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High-profile premieres have been canceled, and the city’s once-bustling red carpets are now on pause.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
16 Jan. 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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There’s a lag before those wholesale price hikes show up in the grocery store, says Karyn Rispoli, a managing editor at Expana.—
Laurent Belsie,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Jan. 2025
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Because of a six-month lag in the way that 340B discounts work, clinics were hit by the change last July.—
Katie Thomas,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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That multiyear time lag in the analogy reflects the yoctosecond time lag between the collision and your ability to capture it, correct?—
Henry Carnell,
Quanta Magazine,
10 Jan. 2025
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From a tactical perspective, the time lag between exposure and symptoms has limited the utility of biological weapons on a battlefield.—
Kate Charlet,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Apr. 2018
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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These songs mess with interspace.—
Sheldon Pearce,
The New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2021
Noun
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There was also an introductory interlude with a curly-haired vampire — those of you who watched season two of Interview With the Vampire may recognize Felix — who befriends Lasher on a park bench and urges him to drop his human impulse to empathy.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
19 Jan. 2025
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After an interlude, two juveniles came prancing down the vines, hopping along to alight on the parkia.—
Jessica Camille Aguirre,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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