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  1. quotation marksnoun

    Symbols used to denote a quotation in writing, written at the beginning and end of the quotation. The symbols vary across languages, and slightly different marks may sometimes be used at the beginning and end of the quotation. See below and quotation mark for the symbols used in the English language, which vary between the United Kingdom and North America.

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  1. quotation marks

    Quotation marks (also known as quotes, quote marks, speech marks, inverted commas, or talking marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character.Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of quotation marks in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of quotation marks in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of quotation marks in a Sentence

  1. Arthur Miller:

    In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

  2. Antony Blinken:

    If they somehow believe that an effort to subjugate' only' -- in quotation marks -- the eastern part of Ukraine and the southern part of Ukraine can succeed, then once again they are profoundly fooling themselves.


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