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

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

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

The tweets are written in all caps and are smattered with random old-guy quotation marks, parentheticals, and pejorative nicknames.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2025

In fact, quotation marks used like that can mislead the reader.

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