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Recent Examples of comma
That pitcher would preferably sign a contract without too many zeros and commas.
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Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Define each line as a piece of integral logic, mostly where the commas occur.
—Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Even removing a comma from a high sticker price like $1,200 and displaying it as $1200 can entice someone to pull the trigger, according to PIRG.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2024
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.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
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Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Define each line as a piece of integral logic, mostly where the commas occur.
—Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Even removing a comma from a high sticker price like $1,200 and displaying it as $1200 can entice someone to pull the trigger, according to PIRG.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2024
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.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comma
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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
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Those employees, for example, the CFPB, they were notified with an email that addressed them as parentheses, employee first name dot employee last name, job title, division.—
Katie Drummond,
WIRED,
13 Feb. 2025
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The 2020 agreement also refined the testing windows.—
Jayna Bardahl,
The Athletic,
7 Mar. 2025
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So there is just as tight a window in which to put together a full career as there ever was.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2025
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How Trump’s trade war could hit your wallet After earlier threats and a last-minute pause in February, President Trump’s North American trade war has begun while the tariff battle with China escalated.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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And then March 3 came around, and the president who cried tariffs was expected to announce some kind of rollback, pause, delay or softened tax.—
David Goldman,
CNN,
5 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
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Remember, interest rates impact the economy with long and variable lags.—
Robert Barone,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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The record holder for the longest continuous stay in space, a Russian cosmonaut and doctor named Valery Polyakov, spent a little more than fourteen months in low Earth orbit, which is relatively protected from space radiation and communication lags.—
Dhruv Khullar,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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Having the FPVs with the assault troops cuts that time lag to seconds.—
David Hambling,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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The researchers have already developed and begun testing several different versions of sweat sensors beyond the one described last week; a consequence of the time lag between publishing research results and making progress in the lab.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Nov. 2016
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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 in southern Mexico, Carbon Nation returned to Belize.—
David Peisner,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2025
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The Jeff Daniels music interludes in this Audible Original present another side of a man that many of us have seen on our tv screens for so many years and the artistry in mixing them together with his stories are beautifully complementary.—
Joshua Dudley,
Forbes,
14 Dec. 2024
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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