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quote

/kwoʊt/ particle C2
  1. Used in speech to indicate the start of a quotation. · She told me she was, quote, "too hot for you."
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So far I have been able to quote from the reports which I have forwarded during these early days to Sherlock Holmes.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 127 · C1
“I could even quote a passage of your letter.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 143 · C1
“Oh, it is well enough as the production of a human composer, sung by featherless bipeds, to quote the late Diogenes.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 556 · C1

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