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single quote
noun
A quotation mark, as in She said, 'Go ahead.
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Two single quotes in a row are interpreted as one single quote.
BRITAIN'S traditional policy on nuclear weapons can be summed up in a single quote.
Headlines and standfirsts (where absolutely necessary), captions and display quotes all take single quote marks.
I've never even seen some of those movies, but I remember every single quote he sent.
"We are a long, long way from a single quote for next season's wheat crop," he notes.
"I envisioned a book without a single quote, a book about pure states of being," she writes.
You can send single apostrophes as part of a value in the query, so the "replace all" block adds an extra single quote.
If the value or comment has a double quote in it, dmmakepar replaces it with a single quote and prints a warning.
But his legacy will always pivot on a single quote and a single image from the bitter civil rights battles of the 1960s.
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single-quote n. the standard character that is variously called ''apostrophe," ''acute accent," ''quote," or ''single quote".
Suppose again that single-quote were to be defined as shown above in the incorrect definition.
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