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quote-unquote

interjection

  1. an expression used before or part before and part after a quotation to identify it as such, and sometimes to dissociate the writer or speaker from it


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That to me felt like a moment where she really needed to put on her “Olivia Pope,” quote unquote, identity.

A trove of Bush-era emails that had been quote-unquote-lost resurfaced in 2009, the victim of an ostensible act of mislabeling.

The risk of claiming that a series has jumped the shark, quote-unquote, is that you could be jumping the gun.

To have your lifeline and your family be your quote unquote day job—you can do a movie and then hop right back.

Cain accused Rove of mounting “a deliberate attempt to damage me because I am not, quote unquote, the establishment choice.”

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