quotation
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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
Ruger Chief Executive Todd Seyfert said the word takeover isn’t a direct quotation but an interpretation of Beretta’s actions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 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
Others speculated that, due to Fennell’s penchant for audience provocation, the quotation marks were an Easter egg indicating that her take on Brontë’s novel would be far from your great-great-grandmother’s “Wuthering Heights.”
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026
Put the names of shorter works, like poems, stories, and songs, in ordinary type with quotation marks. books: Gone With the Wind magazines: Newsweek n e w s pa p E R s.-
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
The latest incident was reported by the Supreme Court of Alabama last Friday, where an attorney submitted two briefs with eight AI-fabricated cases and quotations.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
Glover has said he will take with him a Bible, his wedding rings and family heirlooms, along with a collection of inspirational quotations compiled by Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
Palm, rapeseed and sunflower oils all declined, offsetting a modest uptick in soyoil quotations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
The fact that she insisted on using her own lecture notes with added quotations from Chairman Mao instead of the mimeographed handouts made us respect her even more.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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