—used orally to indicate the end of a direct quotation
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThis 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