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quotation

noun as in citation

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Ten, fifteen, or twenty at a time would clutch at the tape, as it streamed out with its endless lines of quotations,” Miller wrote in the Chicago Tribune of Oct.

He also put quotation marks around the word congresswoman in a move to delegitimize Crockett’s stature and demeaned the progressive group of mostly women House members of color known as the Squad.

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That quotation is nearly 20 years old, but scientists still don’t know exactly to what extent DMS is responsible for seeding clouds, just that it’s a significant factor.

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According to MacDonald, it took his organization’s staff only a minute to put the text in quotation marks and run it through Google.

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Your favorite truism about the power of history may apply here; mine comes courtesy of Salon contributor Mike Lofgren: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat famous quotations.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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