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unquote

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Used by a speaker to indicate the end of a quotation.

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  • interjection Used in speech to indicate the end of a quotation. A misnomer from the words "end quote".

Etymologies

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un- +‎ quote

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Examples

  • Until I know where the body of my murdered brother is, I am not giving up and you had better believe it. “perhaps we were looking in the wrong place” quote unquote is not good enough.

    Stop Loving Everything « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • And you said at that time, quote, "You've got to be kidding?" unquote -- in other words, no way.

    CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2002 2002

  • MAX FRAAD WOLFF: Well, I think that it†™ s a little bit like the Bear Stearns “bailout, †quote-unquote, which is, it†™ s a little bit more funky and a little bit more complicated than it probably needs to be and than it†™ s generally represented in the media.

    Democracy Now! 2008

  • I let the line width change within the same character in order to evoke an underlying picture:'unquote'

    How to make money with free software... 2008

  • Virginia is going to get this case first because, as John Ashcroft says, he wants the suspects to pay "the ultimate sanction," quote unquote, meaning the death penalty.

    CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2002 2002

  • "bailout," quote-unquote, which is, it's a little bit more funky and a little bit more complicated than it probably needs to be and than it's generally represented in the media.

    Democracy Now! 2008

  • Reporter - unquote "unquote" is looking for a confident, competent and ambitious reporter with language skills, specifically French or Scandinavian, to work as part of the unquote "team.

    News from Journalism.co.uk Ed Martin 2010

  • Reporter - unquote "unquote" is looking for a confident, competent and ambitious reporter with language skills, specifically French or Scandinavian, to work as part of the unquote "team.

    News from Journalism.co.uk Ed Martin 2010

  • 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

  • Mr Crone did use those words around the evidence being 'fatal to our case unquote, but at no point in that memo was it mentioned - Mr Thurlbeck for example...

    Phone hacking: James Murdoch questioned by MPs - Thursday 10 November 2011

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