quote
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I quote Mr. Jenkins’s Sept. 12 column only because I happened to read it that day and because his cold and lordly tone captures the European chattering classes’ response to the event.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
When a scientific controversy or breakthrough dominates headlines, press officers and journalists often quote a handful of experts.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
"He was like, 'that doesn't change anything. I still want to be with you.' And that's when we started, like, quote unquote, going out."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
“My favorite Gene Roddenberry quote is … and I’m paraphrasing, but he said that there is some basic human need in that there is a tomorrow,” said Anson Mount, who stars in “Strange New Worlds.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
She wouldn’t quote anything he’d said on his dopey travels through the Middle East.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Porsche quotes a minimum recharging time of 16 minutes, from 10-80% capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Mortgage borrowers with low credit scores, low down-payment amounts or “unique” personal situations are seeing quotes over 7%, Jason Madiedo, co-CEO of SimplyPMG, a mortgage lender, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
While Rowan Pope’s hard wisdom about being twice as good gets plenty of replays, hardly anybody quotes the rest of his speech.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
It also quotes the statement from her team, who remembered her as "a rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Mrs. Kluck makes air quotes with her fingers.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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A witness quoted by Reuters news agency said the fire had been put out by afternoon but smoke was still rising from rubble and corrugated metal.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The reporter may have misheard the comment, or maybe the person being quoted actually said it, or something odd happened in the editing process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
During an interview with a Wall Street Journal reporter in 1980, he quoted from a book on Zen Buddhism and paced around his office, squeezing a wrist exerciser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
"We need to protect artistic freedom all across the world," the organisers quoted him as saying.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
She quoted to him from Rumi; she sang what she knew of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," mixing it up with "Baa Baa, Black Sheep."
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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Whatever: This is what appeared in the Feb. 20, 1985 edition of the Oakland Tribune, quoting a UC Berkeley professor about a protest against immigration sweeps in the Bay Area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Stopping work at this point “will be a disaster,” Sauer wrote, quoting a sworn statement from the director for White House management and administration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"Look at my husband, nothing stopped him" is the Sun's headline, quoting the Queen who praised her husband's courage while coping with his diagnosis.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
I can go on quoting Virginia Woolf—believe me, the passage gets even hotter—but I decide I want to quote myself instead.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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