quotation mark
noun
: one of a pair of punctuation marks " " or ' ' used chiefly to indicate the beginning and the end of a quotation in which the exact phraseology of another or of a text is directly cited
Examples of quotation mark in a Sentence
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After Business Insider reported on missing quotation marks in his wife Neri Oxman’s Ph.D dissertation for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ackman turned his contempt toward the news outlet’s parent Axel Springer SE.
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Annie Massa, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
Separately, Gay had drawn widespread criticism after accusations of plagiarism emerged, including multiple instances of missing quotation marks and citations.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
Type the phone number into Google, Bing, or Yahoo in quotation marks for a precise match.
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
The article highlighted issues similar to those found in Gay’s academic work, mainly involving technical passages that were missing quotation marks for proper citations.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
The corporation announced that Gay would be requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were not present in the original text.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications, the statement said.
—TIME, 12 Dec. 2023
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.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
When file names are formatted in a particular way, an attacker can execute system commands through the QX operator, a function in the Perl programming language that handles quotation marks.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 May 2023
Annie Massa, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
Separately, Gay had drawn widespread criticism after accusations of plagiarism emerged, including multiple instances of missing quotation marks and citations.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
Type the phone number into Google, Bing, or Yahoo in quotation marks for a precise match.
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
The article highlighted issues similar to those found in Gay’s academic work, mainly involving technical passages that were missing quotation marks for proper citations.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
The corporation announced that Gay would be requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were not present in the original text.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications, the statement said.
—TIME, 12 Dec. 2023
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.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
When file names are formatted in a particular way, an attacker can execute system commands through the QX operator, a function in the Perl programming language that handles quotation marks.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 May 2023
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“Quotation mark.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quotation%20mark. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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