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quotation

[kwoh-tay-shuhn] / kwoʊˈteɪ ʃən /


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Instead, discussions rely heavily on selective quotation, vocal individuals or assumptions about community views.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

Younger parents who grew up in the digital age have done their research — “research” in quotation marks — for months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

While each quotation provides something to muse over, the whole thing might be best summed up by a line from the comic poet Alexis: “The entire human condition’s completely insane.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 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

Then, when he’d picked out a nice mysterious quotation, he’d sneaked back to Egypt at night with a flashlight and written it on the back of the paper.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Lyrics and quotations run up the steps towards the stadium.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Many of the most eye-popping quotations featured in the original lawsuit didn’t appear in the federal complaint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

The following year, Pulte even produced a slim volume annotating some of his grandfather’s sayings and quotations.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

A pair of Orange County immigration attorneys received temporary suspensions after the court discovered they used generative AI to write briefs that included “multiple nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and gross misrepresentations.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

Every inch of visible surface of the board had been decorated, with four somewhat gorgeous-looking columns of quotations from a variety of the world’s literatures.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger


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