quotation marks

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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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quotation marks

And by my use of quotation marks, I mean the public Fauci, as opposed to the private Fauci.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Younger parents who grew up in the digital age have done their research — “research” in quotation marks — for months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

The concept of being picky was born, though it was still so new a word that food marketers put it in quotation marks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

The substitution removes the quotation marks around “exceedingly limited.”

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2025

If the entire quotation is in parentheses, then the closing parenthesis should go outside the quotation marks.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner