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quotation

[kwoh-tey-shuhn] / kwoʊˈteɪ ʃən /


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The evocative title is a quotation from the 13th century Persian poet Rumi.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 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

Fennell has already addressed this, noting that her film is stylized with quotation marks around the title because it’s her own vision of the book, inspired by how she imagined it as a teenager.

From Salon Feb. 23, 2026

To create the possessive of something that’s normally in quotation marks—for example, the title of a poem, “The Raven”—you would have to put the apostrophe outside.

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

Gathering together some of the anthology’s pithiest and most striking quotations, Mr. Romm’s book is an intriguing and occasionally frustrating aperitif that doesn’t fully satisfy but is nonetheless stimulating.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 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

Some were in so far over their heads that they resorted to invention, fabricating preposterous stories or quotations out of thin air.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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