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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 Sunday and previous rankings in parentheses.—
Rick Armstrong,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
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Player ages at the start of the 2025 season are listed in parentheses.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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The move could also bolster Squid Game’s Emmy chances as the third season will be airing during the voting window for the second season, much like The Bear was last year.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2025
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Floor-to-ceiling windows showcased hills rolling into the wide blue bay.—
Sammy Feldblum,
The Dial,
30 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The film sees Williams, represented via a CGI monkey, start to reconnect with childhood friends after briefly hitting pause on his solo career.—
Sophie Williams,
Billboard,
28 Jan. 2025
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What To Know Friday's execution will be the first in the state following a pause over the Christmas holiday.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 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
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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 2 Feb. 2025.
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