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Recent Examples of comma
Remember, list all your teams in order from most wins to fewest and separated by commas.
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Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
Square Lake looks suspiciously like a comma.
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Mark Glende,
Twin Cities,
3 Apr. 2026
Basically, this means a long, wavy line of thunderstorms—which can be seen trailing down from the low-pressure area in a classic comma shape on weather maps.
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Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
16 Mar. 2026
Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness (no Oxford comma this is AMERICA 🦅🦅🦅) is premiering on June 26 on HBO.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
15 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for comma
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
Square Lake looks suspiciously like a comma.
—
Mark Glende,
Twin Cities,
3 Apr. 2026
Basically, this means a long, wavy line of thunderstorms—which can be seen trailing down from the low-pressure area in a classic comma shape on weather maps.
—
Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
16 Mar. 2026
Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness (no Oxford comma this is AMERICA 🦅🦅🦅) is premiering on June 26 on HBO.
—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
15 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comma
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Top 10 best malls Here are USA Today readers’ 2026 selections of their favorite malls in the United States with last year’s rank in parentheses.
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The amounts in parenthesis are for a batch of seven drinks.
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The interior’s center armrest, speaker covers, window buttons, and gear shift are among the areas of porcelain application.
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In Irkutsk, Russia, a man is seen leaning into the open window of a hatchback and repeatedly hitting another motorist.
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Munster’s mosquito-spraying program is once again set to take flight Tuesday after a brief pause, the town announced.
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His health problems resembled a fall down a long flight of stairs, with pauses at several landings.
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In California, where most voters mail their ballots, that lag time can be up to a week.
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The surcharge is now updated on a weekly basis and is calculated on a monthly lag to account for the frequent rise and fall in fuel costs.
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Satellite data is available consistently but has a time lag.
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The time lag breaks momentum, and people who are unfamiliar with design begin to settle.
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After disc removal, the resulting interspace requires robust reconstruction to restore height, alignment, and stability.
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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.
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His warnings contrasted starkly with the brief but glorious interludes of culinary fabulism that punctuated our travel down South.
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And young Bochner is understandably queasy in his delivery of the poetic lines he’s been handed for these same interludes.
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When asked to run similar projections while modeling for factors such as return variability, family income and investor behavior, Morningstar showcases a more subdued picture of financial health for account holders at the same intervals.
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Participants also self-selected their time interval, and outcomes were self-reported, which may introduce participant bias.
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“Comma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comma. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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