quotation
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This was in response to his grandfather’s quotation: “You can never succeed when you have hate on your mind.”
From Salon • Jun. 9, 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
“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
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing quotation
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Argumentative Writing
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