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Reported and quoted are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reported" instead the word "Quoted" as a verb or an adjective.

Nearby Words: quote, quotation, quoting, quotable

Reported adjective - Made known or told about; especially presented in a formal account.

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Quoted and reported are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Quoted" instead the word "Reported" as a verb or an adjective.

Li Gui nervously reported that Bao Yu was in the middle of learning the third volume of Shi Jing (Odes of Poetry) and quoted a line.

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He's been quoted as claiming he's clumsy rather than crazy; he never meant to trash hotel rooms, it just happened... Which would be contradicted by both his reported fondness for blowing up hotel room toilets with cherry bombs, M80s and dynamite.

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John Nance Garner IV, a Vice President of the United States under Franklin Roosevelt, once described the office (as reported) as "not worth a bucket of warm spit." The word he really used was "piss", and (according to TOW) he "once described a writer who quoted it this way as a 'pantywaist'."

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