quotation
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This was in response to his grandfather’s quotation: “You can never succeed when you have hate on your mind.”
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
Ruger Chief Executive Todd Seyfert said the word takeover isn’t a direct quotation but an interpretation of Beretta’s actions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 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
How very fitting that the habitually plugged-in crowd tried to make sense of those quotation marks surrounding Fennell’s title.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 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
Vocabulary lists containing quotation
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Argumentative Writing
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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