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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To find them now, open Gmail and search for the phrase in:chats (using no quotation marks).
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Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2025
To limit the number of unrelated results such as results with similar names, the researchers searched for names in quotation marks.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
The actual prompts are in italics and quotation marks below, which can be cut-and-pasted into a free version of ChatGPT or any large language model AI.
—Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Phrases that appear inside quotation marks represent a subject’s exact words as heard by the reporter, written in a transcript, quoted in a police report or captured on a recording.
—Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
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Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2025
To limit the number of unrelated results such as results with similar names, the researchers searched for names in quotation marks.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
The actual prompts are in italics and quotation marks below, which can be cut-and-pasted into a free version of ChatGPT or any large language model AI.
—Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Phrases that appear inside quotation marks represent a subject’s exact words as heard by the reporter, written in a transcript, quoted in a police report or captured on a recording.
—Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Quotation mark.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quotation%20mark. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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