quotation
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Instead, discussions rely heavily on selective quotation, vocal individuals or assumptions about community views.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
The evocative title is a quotation from the 13th century Persian poet Rumi.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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
At least one copy included peculiar quotation marks in the opening paragraphs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Then, when he’d picked out a nice mysterious quotation, he’d sneaked back to Egypt at night with a flashlight and written it on the back of the paper.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
In several of her novels, Ms. Mandel has had characters with beloved quotations tattooed on their bodies, a practice that inspired a real-life trend of the author’s fans being inked with lines from her books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Lyrics and quotations run up the steps towards the stadium.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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
Some were in so far over their heads that they resorted to invention, fabricating preposterous stories or quotations out of thin air.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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