Assertion: scare quote | /r/HasProperty | quotation marks
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Source sentences:
text: Scare quotes” are quotation marks used around words that are not a direct quotation from a specific source.
text: Scare quotes (also called shudder quotes, sneer quotes, and quibble marks) are quotation marks that writers place around a word or phrase to signal that they are using it in a non-standard, ironic, or otherwise special sense.
text: Scare quotes are quotation marks that are typically used to indicate sarcasm or irony (e.g., It's only snowing a "little").
text: Scare quotes are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase from which you, the writer, wish to distance yourself because you consider that word or phrase to be odd or inappropriate for some reason.
text: Scare quotes are quotation marks used before and after a word or phrase to show that the word or phrase is unusual or perhaps not accurate.