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
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The problem is that Flanagan—known for eerie but subtle horror films like Hush and Oculus and Netflix series like Midnight Mass and The Haunting of Hill House—puts too many overly earnest quotation marks around what should be the most moving scenes.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 June 2025
When searching, most of these tools can be used together like quotation marks and Boolean operators, truncation and Boolean operators, quotation marks and truncation.
—Kristen Finch, JSTOR Daily, 21 Apr. 2025
But truncation, typically, does not work within quotation marks.
—Kristen Finch, JSTOR Daily, 21 Apr. 2025
These connectors can be combined with each other and with terms in quotation marks.
—Kristen Finch, JSTOR Daily, 21 Apr. 2025
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 June 2025
When searching, most of these tools can be used together like quotation marks and Boolean operators, truncation and Boolean operators, quotation marks and truncation.
—Kristen Finch, JSTOR Daily, 21 Apr. 2025
But truncation, typically, does not work within quotation marks.
—Kristen Finch, JSTOR Daily, 21 Apr. 2025
These connectors can be combined with each other and with terms in quotation marks.
—Kristen Finch, JSTOR Daily, 21 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for quotation mark
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“Quotation mark.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quotation%20mark. Accessed 22 Jun. 2025.
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