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
“They had a fine office and the largest and completest quotation board I have ever seen anywhere,” Edwin Lefèvre writes of one bucket shop in his 1923 classic, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator External link.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
At least one copy included peculiar quotation marks in the opening paragraphs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 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
But don’t use a comma after a quotation that ends with an exclamation point or a question mark.
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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