an stand alone without them. When an expression is essential to the sentence, however, it is not separated with commas. Id. at 35; see also State v. Tunney, 895 P.2d 13, 16 (Wash. Ct. App. 1995) ("Under the rules of punctuation, appositives which serve a nonrestrictive (parenthetic) function are set of

nter (IC3) or local field offices. China-Backed Hackers 'Almost Certainly' Targeted Canada During Theft of Millions of Americans' Data CBC (09/05, Tunney) reported that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Salt Typhoon, which may have stolen data from nearly every American, also "almost ce