Examples of unquote in a Sentence
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Is there any sense of wanting to make up for quote–unquote lost time?
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Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2024
So, these are not moments where there’s this, quote/unquote, always clean unless Republicans are negotiating.
—ABC News, 7 May 2023
This was a man who was educated in the United States, who was fluent in English and had spent the majority of his life essentially working as a quote unquote, journalist for the Saudi royal family.
—CBS News, 23 Dec. 2020
Ravi Dhar, the director of the Center for Customer Insights at Yale, adds that for today’s consumers—quote-unquote millennials—the need to own just isn’t there.
—Cam Wolf, GQ, 31 Aug. 2017
Olympia Fields, where Jim Furyk (tied) the scoring record (in 2003), that was not a quote-unquote great Open course.
—Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2017
Much of our quote-unquote organic produce comes from overseas.
—New York Times, 13 Jan. 2016
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Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2024
So, these are not moments where there’s this, quote/unquote, always clean unless Republicans are negotiating.
—ABC News, 7 May 2023
This was a man who was educated in the United States, who was fluent in English and had spent the majority of his life essentially working as a quote unquote, journalist for the Saudi royal family.
—CBS News, 23 Dec. 2020
Ravi Dhar, the director of the Center for Customer Insights at Yale, adds that for today’s consumers—quote-unquote millennials—the need to own just isn’t there.
—Cam Wolf, GQ, 31 Aug. 2017
Olympia Fields, where Jim Furyk (tied) the scoring record (in 2003), that was not a quote-unquote great Open course.
—Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2017
Much of our quote-unquote organic produce comes from overseas.
—New York Times, 13 Jan. 2016
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“Unquote.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unquote. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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unquote
noun
un·quote
ˈən-ˌkwōt 
—used orally to mark the end of a direct quotation
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