quotation
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The evocative title is a quotation from the 13th century Persian poet Rumi.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
And by my use of quotation marks, I mean the public Fauci, as opposed to the private Fauci.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Younger parents who grew up in the digital age have done their research — “research” in quotation marks — for months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Bucket shop patrons were positioned heavily for Amalgamated to rise, so the proprietors shorted the stock “to establish as low a quotation as possible,” the Journal wrote.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
The opening quotation marks always go right before the first word of the quotation: “Can we talk?”
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
The following year, Pulte even produced a slim volume annotating some of his grandfather’s sayings and quotations.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026
A pair of Orange County immigration attorneys received temporary suspensions after the court discovered they used generative AI to write briefs that included “multiple nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and gross misrepresentations.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
The latest incident was reported by the Supreme Court of Alabama last Friday, where an attorney submitted two briefs with eight AI-fabricated cases and quotations.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
Glover has said he will take with him a Bible, his wedding rings and family heirlooms, along with a collection of inspirational quotations compiled by Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
“The augmentation of the complexity and intensity of the field of intelligent life,” he said, quoting one of my Ekumenical quotations.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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