as in quote
a passage referred to, repeated, or offered as an example
the beautiful autumn day brought to mind this quotation from Thoreau: "So live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each"
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Recent Examples of quotation
Some of the founders were indeed devout Christians and these folks cherry-pick Christian quotations from them.
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Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
The narrative is organized around quotations from George Mackay Brown, who cherished the islands’ prehistory.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Cato’s quotation comes from a pivotal moment when women and their allies poured into the streets to demand the repeal of a war-time-era tax on their savings.
—Time, 24 Nov. 2025
The new data would have replaced a long-outdated jobs database that until recently included obsolete occupations such as nut sorters and telephone quotation clerks.
—Lisa Rein, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2025
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Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
The narrative is organized around quotations from George Mackay Brown, who cherished the islands’ prehistory.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Cato’s quotation comes from a pivotal moment when women and their allies poured into the streets to demand the repeal of a war-time-era tax on their savings.
—Time, 24 Nov. 2025
The new data would have replaced a long-outdated jobs database that until recently included obsolete occupations such as nut sorters and telephone quotation clerks.
—Lisa Rein, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quotation
quote
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One popular approach is to embrace the lesson of Firth’s pithy quote and measure whether two models’ representations of an input keep the same company.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Jan. 2026
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That quote from Illinois football coach Bret Bielema, from the fascinating weekend reporting from my colleague Bruce Feldman about a surprising postseason with an unexpected College Football Playoff final four (being played tomorrow and Friday), has stuck with me for a few days.—
Dan Shanoff,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Quotation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quotation. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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