- present participle of quote.
quoting
Example Sentences
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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
Such funds "could instead have been used to fight crime" or recruited "thousands of new officers", according to the paper, quoting the report's author David Spencer.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
She was always quoting famous Black writers and activists.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
