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quotation

noun as in citation

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Example Sentences

He refers to them often in conversation: bits of poetry, quotations, scenes from films.

I put free speech in quotations because we’re not talking about the kind of free speech people fight and die for under dictatorships or theocracies.

In 1989, the study reported, the Washington Post had used “African-American” 96 times in quotations, 95 times in titles and 119 times in editorials and letters.

From Salon

Shivkumar is a big thinker, an erudite physician quick with an apt quotation, whose Westwood office is stacked with Sanskrit volumes of the Mahabharata alongside books about late Bruins basketball coach John Wooden.

Coppola’s original screenplay, the product of years of revision and still subjected to much improvisation, swings manically between clunky dialogue and classic quotations.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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