Plz help! Why is the word temporarily in quotation marks? "They were short on money and long on relatives who kept “temporarily” moving into our house because they had nowh…

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Louis Amoros · Answer 1 · 2021-09-16T16:16:10+0000

I think the author is trying to express sarcasm. By putting "temporarily" in quotation marks, it means that the relatives were staying at their house for a while, and not just temporarily.

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