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
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
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
But the question mark must be outside if it’s not part of the actual quotation.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Vocabulary lists containing quotation
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Argumentative Writing
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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