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“is survival selfish?”. what is the authors most likely purpose in putting quotation marks around the word smart in paragraph 9.
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“is survival selfish?”. what is the authors most likely purpose in putting quotation marks around the word smart in paragraph 9.

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Usually when an author puts the a certain word in quotation marks when it’s not technically supposed to be there is when they are trying to be sarcastic. For example-
If I knew a boy that wasn’t the most bright person and I wanted to be sarcastic I would say Oh yeah, he’s real “bright”.
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