The heredoc syntax is a much cleaner way (useful) to work with multi-line strings and avoid quoting issues. They are a great alternative to quoted strings because of increased readability and maintainability. You don't have to escape quotes and (good) IDEs or text editors will use the proper syntax highlighting.
A very common example: echoing out HTML from within PHP:
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