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quotation

[kwoh-tey-shuhn] / kwoʊˈteɪ ʃən /


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“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

How very fitting that the habitually plugged-in crowd tried to make sense of those quotation marks surrounding Fennell’s title.

From Salon • 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

I may force their words to stand between quotation marks.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez




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