quotation
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Mr. Gottlieb, a professor of history at Bentley University, produces nearly 300 pages on the topic without a trace of humor, except in quotation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
“They had a fine office and the largest and completest quotation board I have ever seen anywhere,” Edwin Lefèvre writes of one bucket shop in his 1923 classic, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator External link.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
Others speculated that, due to Fennell’s penchant for audience provocation, the quotation marks were an Easter egg indicating that her take on Brontë’s novel would be far from your great-great-grandmother’s “Wuthering Heights.”
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
Technically, this is not “Wuthering Heights,” but “Wuthering Heights” in the self-referential quotation marks on the poster, an acknowledgment that Fennell has plunged her fingers into the plot and manipulated it to her whims.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
The trick is at the other end, where the closing quotation marks go.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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