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.
have been quoting
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present perfect progressiveof quote.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Others have been quoting Clement Attlee, recommending "a period of silence".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
A video of “Electro Taylor” belting “I Knew You Were Trouble” has been making the rounds on social media, where fans have been quoting electricity-themed Swift lyrics with abandon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Restaurant analysts and operators have been quoting an estimate that 75 percent of the independent restaurants that have been closed to protect Americans from the coronavirus won’t make it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2020
Caplan notes that some of her friends have been quoting Gwendolyn Brooks’s 1949 poem “First Fight. Then Fiddle”: .
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2017
In all that I have just said about Gibraltar, I have been quoting a recent writer in the Historical Review.
From Lectures on Modern history by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
