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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

He has quoted the Fed’s Twitter posts disparagingly.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2023

Cantwell, who has quoted Hitler in court documents and was dropped by his attorneys in part for allegedly threatening a lawyer for the plaintiffs, was representing himself in the trial.

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 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

This was the same Mrs. Butler, formerly Mary Sigourney, whose reminiscences, the late Rev. Dr. Holmes, the learned and persevering annalist, has quoted in his "Memoir of the French Protestants."

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)