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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
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
The concept of being picky was born, though it was still so new a word that food marketers put it in quotation marks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 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
Her fingers sketched quotation marks around the name, and her tone dripped sarcasm.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Argumentative Writing
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