How does the leading dollar sign affect single quotes in Bash?

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It causes escape sequences to be interpreted.

$ echo $'Name\tAge\nBob\t24\nMary\t36'
Name    Age
Bob     24
Mary    36

After those sequences are expanded, the result is single-quoted, as if the dollar sign had not been present.

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