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Common collocations with quote in American Collocation

quote verb

US /kwoʊt/

often or in many places

commonly
extensively
freely
frequently
oft
publicly
widely

He is a regular guest on business television and he is frequently quoted in newspapers and periodicals.

using the exact words that were said

accurately
correctly
directly
verbatim

Readers’ comments are quoted verbatim from a recent readership survey.

using only some words or ideas

selectively

Naturally, I have selectively quoted the statistics that promote this school’s academic strengths.

in a way that shows you like what someone said

approvingly

When the leader of a party of “the left” approvingly quotes Republicans, something very odd is going on.

author
message
paragraph
passage
phrase
remark
sentence
text
verse
word

It is not necessary to quote a passage in full.