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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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
Mr Livingstone denied suggesting Hitler was a Zionist, adding the Nazi leader was "a monster from start to finish" and claimed to have been quoting historical "facts".
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2016
How shall we prove these fourteen quarterings that we have been quoting incessantly for the past three weeks?
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
