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
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
“They had a fine office and the largest and completest quotation board I have ever seen anywhere,” Edwin Lefèvre writes of one bucket shop in his 1923 classic, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator External link.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 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
In most cases, a question mark should be inside the quotation marks.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Executives then lobbied Urner Barry throughout the 2024 holiday season, the Justice Department said, asking the market research firm for ever-higher price quotations and to pay less attention to other companies’ bids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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
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
The testing, the experiment, the surgery, and my subsequent mental development were described at length, and his talk was enlivened by quotations from my progress reports.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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