quotation
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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
Eagle-eyed viewers noticed that, in the film’s poster and its trailers, the title was bookended by quotation marks.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
Technically, this is not “Wuthering Heights,” but “Wuthering Heights” in the self-referential quotation marks on the poster, an acknowledgment that Fennell has plunged her fingers into the plot and manipulated it to her whims.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
Many people prefer to introduce a longer quotation with a colon instead of a comma.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Vocabulary lists containing quotation
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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