quotation
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Instead, discussions rely heavily on selective quotation, vocal individuals or assumptions about community views.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
A quotation that fits your argument exactly, from a source nobody else has ever cited, is either a gift or a fabrication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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
But the exclamation point goes outside if it’s not part of the quotation.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Those included mention of plaintiffs and defendants not in the complaint, supposed “declarations” from non-existent or never-present individuals, false quotations purporting to be taken from the text of H.B.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Now, Dazhai is overflowing with shops selling items that support Mao's personality cult -- posters, playing cards, and crockery emblazoned with his image, and the "Little Red Book" of his quotations.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
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
All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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