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
Fennell has already addressed this, noting that her film is stylized with quotation marks around the title because it’s her own vision of the book, inspired by how she imagined it as a teenager.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026
“All of a sudden, I was given a press release with a quotation by myself written in it, and asked to just agree to it,” Pazdur said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal • 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
“The man who gave you his name, from the man who gave you your name” is written within quotation marks.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing quotation
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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