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quotation marks

  1. Punctuation marks (“ ”) that set off dialogue, quoted material, titles of short works, and definitions. When something must be quoted inside a quotation, single quotation marks are used: “‘Religion,’ according to Karl Marx (see also Marx), ‘is the opiate of the masses.’”



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James Joyce’s "Ulysses" rained em dashes on winding sentences that he had already stripped of quotation marks, resulting in prose so unruly that numerous reading groups are devoted specifically to parsing it.

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"I'm supposed to be on benefits and a 'free ride'," he says, using his hands to make quotation marks.

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Mr Quinn said the BBC were "manufacturing consent for genocide" by using words such as reportedly and putting quotation marks in its reporting.

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Berlant, a gifted physical comic who whipsaws between over-the-top grandeur and abject awkwardness, introduces her situations with a wink — and even the winks are delivered in quotation marks.

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After Business Insider ran its first article, reporting that in four cases her dissertation lifted wordings from other academics without using quotation marks, Oxman apologized.

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