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quotation
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He also put quotation marks around the word congresswoman in a move to delegitimize Crockett’s stature and demeaned the progressive group of mostly women House members of color known as the Squad.
That quotation is nearly 20 years old, but scientists still don’t know exactly to what extent DMS is responsible for seeding clouds, just that it’s a significant factor.
According to MacDonald, it took his organization’s staff only a minute to put the text in quotation marks and run it through Google.
Your favorite truism about the power of history may apply here; mine comes courtesy of Salon contributor Mike Lofgren: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat famous quotations.”
James Joyce’s "Ulysses" rained em dashes on winding sentences that he had already stripped of quotation marks, resulting in prose so unruly that numerous reading groups are devoted specifically to parsing it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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