direct quotation

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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

Above them a solitary lightbulb emits jagged illumination — a direct quotation from Picasso’s “Guernica,” the totemic Modernist depiction of war’s horrors.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2024

Do not use quotation marks, as the indentation signals direct quotation.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

An earlier version of this article incorrectly attributed a sentence as a direct quotation in the report.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2021

The passage originally contained a single direct quotation from Lucretius, but two more were added in 1588, and we will see in a moment that it is directly inspired by Lucretius on foedus naturae.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton