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noun

quotation

CEFR B2

a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

In a sentence

Six example sentences with quotation, each labelled with its topic.

  • Her thesis carries a quotation at the foot of every page, crediting the archive that supplied each letter.

    Literature

  • The catalog prints a quotation beneath each plate so visitors can find the scholar who first identified the painter.

    Art

  • Journals reject a paper that borrows a figure without a quotation naming the study it came from.

    Science

  • Every claim in the brief ends with a quotation naming the earlier ruling, so the judge can check the source herself.

    Law

  • The dissertation places a quotation after each passage of Aristotle, telling the reader which edition and line was consulted.

    Philosophy

  • The working paper adds a quotation beneath every chart, crediting the census table each column of numbers came from.

    Economics

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