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signal phrase
noun
An indication that something is a direct quote.
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Use a signal phrase from your title.
Use a signal phrase to introduce your full sentence quote.
Use a signal phrase in your text before you provide a direct quote.
Introduce them with an additional complete sentence or a signal phrase.
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"It turns out" and "nobody knew" are two of the signal phrases by which Trump indicates that an epiphany has arrived: that health-care policy is "so complicated," or that North Korea is not a Chinese client state.
Use signal phrases.
Order your paragraphs and supporting evidence in a linear progression through use of verbs, transitions, and signal phrases.
Kim hinted that the baby might be coming early when she tweeted a belly selfie the day before, captioned with the signaling phrase "Ready whenever you are lol".
We will target ads based on browser-side intent signals phrased in a standard vocabulary, and without a persistent user id or highly re-identifiable cookie.
"You can give a signal, a phrase or a gesture, and bring out the alternate personality and make them do things," he said; "Tamerlan thought someone might have done that to him".
The Nazi propaganda magazine Signal used the phrase in a May 1943 article titled "Hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang" ("Behind the Iron Curtain"), and Joseph Goebbels used it in a February 1945 issue of "Das Reich".
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