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- noun Plural form of
quotemark .
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Examples
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Former Army MP: Do not confuse the use of quotemarks.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Birth Defects as God’s Punishment for Abortion 2010
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Former Army MP: Do not confuse the use of quotemarks.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Birth Defects as God’s Punishment for Abortion 2010
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Not that I'm surprised or anything, but you can tell when the BBC are really "behind" a certain news narrative because the quotemarks go out the "window".
Archive 2009-03-15 2009
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If part of a sentence is a quote that begins or is in the middle of a sentence, and requires a comma to set it off from the rest of the sentence, the comma goes outside the quotemarks.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Commas and Periods — Inside Closing Quotation Marks or Outside Them? 2009
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American rule = periods and commas inside the quotes, even if you are adding them to the quoted material; British rule: only quoted material goes inside the quotemarks.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Commas and Periods — Inside Closing Quotation Marks or Outside Them? 2009
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Not that I'm surprised or anything, but you can tell when the BBC are really "behind" a certain news narrative because the quotemarks go out the "window".
Biased BBC 2009
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"In the case of 'Prickly City,' " Stantis tells Comic Riffs, "I didn't even originally have quotemarks ... that the editor of the Trib found so offensive."
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Michael Cavna 2011
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It's just that the dinosaurs at Top Gear seem never to have got the memo -- oh, unless maybe they're doing that knowing, postmodern, ironic thing of doing racist jokes in quotemarks.
The Guardian World News Rodrigo Camarena 2011
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Same answer as always lately the M$M is owned outright or through sponsorship by less than a half dozen foreign corporations and actual "reporting" of actual "facts" is left to bloggers and double quotemarks.
Crooks and Liars John Amato 2010
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..in the Ottawa Citizen seems likely to get "progressive" Canadians' knickers knotted quotemarks at Cameron's request from "Comments":
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