quoting
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According to Politico, which broke the story quoting anonymous sources, the British leader sent a "few messages" via an unspecified communication channel to a person he believed to be Wiles before becoming suspicious.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
On Sunday Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, asked about the bonkers statements young radical candidates made a few years ago that damage their electability today, laughed it off by quoting a friend: “Woke 1 was crazy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Markets stop panicking when policymakers stop panicking,” Lee said, quoting billionaire hedge-fund manager David Tepper.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
As a professor of classics at the University of Pennsylvania, she’ll be on the front line of academics condemned to unteach Nolan’s heavily altered screenplay to students who will arrive quoting it chapter and verse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Dick afterward grew fond of quoting Andrews’ reply, for it seemed to him a fine specimen of the boy’s “funny thinking,” his “off on a cloud” complacency.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
