Sentences with phrase «scare quotes because»

I need the scare quotes because there has lately been some debate, provoked by Professor Peter Sankoff (see here and here), as to what remedy the Supreme Court actually ordered in that case.

I put the word «market» in scare quotes because a sealed - bid auction barely qualifies — we'll get a better idea of market price when trades start happening on a regular basis.

I use «free» in scare quotes because Kindle Unlimited is not a free program.

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I use scare quotes there because the film forces us to judge Alex and also to examine our own gendered standards.

Is anyone actually 100 % clear whether Amazon is «offering» (scare quotes, because a leaked letter floating an idea to only a few authors isn't an actual offer) to give $ 9.99 for every e-book sold straight to the authors, or just offering to give Amazon's share of $ 9.99 as long as Hachette agrees to hand over their share?

The scare quotes are because I am one of those recalcitrants who still can not see how such a statistic has any real world meaning.

Answer # 3: I always try to put «scare quotes» around the word «greenhouse» unless referring to the glass variety because the term is misleading.

That's because lawyers put scare quotes on words, terms, and phrases they would not use otherwise.