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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. —
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 See All Example Sentences for comma
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 See All Example Sentences for comma
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Top 10 With records through Wednesday and previous rankings in parentheses.— Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 16 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
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The burglars pried open a window to get into a room on the second floor.— Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
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Darci Ascaridis, the victim’s wife, testified Tuesday that her husband had been shining a flashlight from a window and yelling that the beach was closed after hearing noise from the shore.— Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 19 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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Brands that rely solely on visibility, or operate with a lag between cultural insight and execution, are starting to lose ground.— Angelique Kuiper, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026
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Frazier described a typical pricing cycle pattern, noting that spot prices move first, before highway contract rates follow suit with a three-to-six-month lag.— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 20 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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Jean-Baptiste, who trained as a cellist, arranges his songs—some of which are barely over a minute long—like a chamber cycle punctuated with interludes.— Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 14 Apr. 2026
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In an interlude between fights, the theme song from Mortal Kombat played.— Robin Wright, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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