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It might inspire people who would be intimidated about the idea of quote-unquote exercising to just get up and move.
NYT > Home Page By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS 2011
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It might inspire people who would be intimidated about the idea of quote-unquote exercising to just get up and move.
NYT > Home Page By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS 2011
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Specifically for casting aspersion—heaping ridicule on what follows—it’s OK in informal use to write or say “what some pluralizing people like to call quote-unquote aspersions.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Specifically for casting aspersion—heaping ridicule on what follows—it’s OK in informal use to write or say “what some pluralizing people like to call quote-unquote aspersions.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Mayor Michael A. Nutter of Philadelphia, the conference's new vice president, said: We don't consider this to be a quote-unquote war resolution.
Peter Dreier: Mayors to Obama: Bring War Dollars Home Peter Dreier 2011
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Yet specific tales in some cases apocryphal of the minority candidate who received a job offer, promotion, or college admission over a -- quote-unquote -- "objectively more qualified" White applicant remain powerfully salient to the point where they're apparently more persuasive than aggregated statistics.
Sam Sommers: When Whites Feel Marginalized Sam Sommers 2011
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It seems to me this is motivated by an effort to control costs, that anything quote-unquote 'new' is going to be denied, said Dr. James Malec, a research director at Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana.
Military insurer denies coverage of new brain injury treatment 2011
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"So many of these quote-unquote gaffes are made-up nonsense to distract voters from the economic issues that are so important," he said.
No compromises with Obama, says Ken Buck Dan Balz 2010
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I mean, was there not a time when quote-unquote Paranormal Fantasy was actually Horror because it had vampires in it?
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“The president said not long ago in an interview, quote-unquote, we are out of money,” Pawlenty told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King when asked whether the country could afford health care reform right now.
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