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Recent Examples of comma
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.
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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
The rise and fall from comma to comma, the full stop in a period: In the face of uncertainty, of not knowing when the pain will end, Small Rain’s sentences transform the clinical narration of a hospital stay into the soothing murmur of a prayer, or the steady sound of rain.
—Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comma
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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
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Han used holes, windows, and cutouts in a similar way.E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025
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True story: An owl took up residence in the tree near my bedroom window.Laurel Dalrymple, NPR, 18 Jan. 2025
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The result: The office tasked with managing the return to student loan repayment after a long pandemic pause, as well as the rollout of an overhauled FAFSA, was flat-funded for 2023.Cory Turner, NPR, 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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OnePlus lags behind its competitors in this area, as both Google and Samsung offer seven years of software support for their phones, including the Pixel 8a and S24 FE.PCMAG, PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025
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This is when Johnson personally experienced the lag in Los Angeles' evacuation notices.John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
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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
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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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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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The band—an Indian quintet blending psychedelic rock, jazzy interludes, and soulful ballads—worked their wonders and magic, their performance and energy a complement to the city’s buzz, sparkling street lights after dark, and iconic, storied music scene.Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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