quote
verb (used with object)
to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
has quoted
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present perfectof quote (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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A private company has quoted him £20,000 to clear the site, which would include fees to test the waste for contaminants such as asbestos.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
A local station, Al-Jadeed TV, has quoted Aoun as saying that Riad Salameh had used his brother to buy real-estate in France worth nearly $12 million.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
And Biden has quoted Yeats before while talking about the Middle East.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2021
Mehretu has quoted the remark by Martinican writer and critic Édouard Glissant: “We clamor for the right to opacity for everyone.”
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2021
Aspasia, indeed, who was the clever preceptress of Socrates in rhetoric, in these verses which are attributed to her, which Herodicus the Cratetian has quoted, speaks thus— As.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
