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citation

noun as in excerpt

noun as in award

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Example Sentences

That officer believed my fair-skinned son was white, according to the traffic citation I examined.

The university claims students can face a citation or fine for violating the UNO smoking prohibition.

The sort of reader who believes that typing Do you have a citation for that?

Saying so is to make a statement so obvious as to defy the need for citation.

Jamelle calls the act of crossing the border a minor deal, akin to a traffic citation.

It is often convenient for a teacher, and others, to recall the number of a page of a book in which a citation is found.

It is the latest work on the subject, especially rich in the citation of authorities.

We should deal unfairly with it were we to attempt either citation or summary.

Here, certainly, as in the previous citation, the idea is not identical with that expressed by Hamlet.

The laws of Lycurgus were in many instances utterly subversive of morality, and too outrageous for citation.

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to citation, such as: quotation, example, illustration, mention, passage, and quote.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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