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single quotes vs. double quotes

plural noun
  1. one pair of single quotation marks, written as (‘ ’) and used especially for a quotation within another quotation: He said, “I told you to say ‘Open, sesame’ when you want to enter the mountain.”
plural noun
  1. one set of double quotation marks (“ ”), as usually appear around quoted material.

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