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Recent Examples of comma
The comma in the title of Bon Iver‘s three-track October EP Sable, was always there for a reason.
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Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2025
Now, my prayer is that this news will be but a comma in the HTDA story, not a period.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2025
The only difference between that ominous sentence and the one that originally appeared in the paper on Oct. 18, 1924, is the comma that now separates the two halves.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 22 Nov. 2024
In response to Melissa McCarthy posting a photo of herself and her husband on Instagram, Streisand asked the question on everyone’s mind, without even using a comma to separate the independent clause.
—Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
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Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2025
Now, my prayer is that this news will be but a comma in the HTDA story, not a period.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2025
The only difference between that ominous sentence and the one that originally appeared in the paper on Oct. 18, 1924, is the comma that now separates the two halves.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 22 Nov. 2024
In response to Melissa McCarthy posting a photo of herself and her husband on Instagram, Streisand asked the question on everyone’s mind, without even using a comma to separate the independent clause.
—Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
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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.—
Steve Millar,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 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,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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McDonald’s performance opens a window onto the grandmothers and great-grandmothers whose lives were even more tragically curtailed.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2025
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So, to have the resources from the commercial project felt like a window was open for a very short period of time.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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And with Russia’s Vladimir Putin failing to agree to a full pause in the fighting with Ukraine, signs point to a continuing war and uncertain American support for Ukraine.—
Ella Polak,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 2025
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The pandemic provided a reprieve for millions of student loan borrowers, as stimulus checks and payment pauses allowed many of them to bring down their balances.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 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
Noun
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Alex Condon beat me at 2K, but the input lag on the TV was going on.—
Lindsay Schnell,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Though this latter feature presumably increases the TVs’ input lag, and so likely won’t be a good option to activate for fast-reaction games such as Call Of Duty.—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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According to her research, traditional fashion weeks lead to overproduction, and the time lag between the reveal of designs during traditional fashion weeks and availability leads to a disconnect that alienates young generations.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
27 Mar. 2025
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Having the FPVs with the assault troops cuts that time lag to seconds.—
David Hambling,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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
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Muay Thai is more a motif, here, than a driver of action, as many subsequent boxing interludes tie together multiple storylines.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
31 Mar. 2025
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So, these black holes would produce powerful jets both early and later in their lifetimes, with an interlude in the middle where the jets are either weak or nonexistent.—
David Garofalo,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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