Definitions
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- noun Somebody whose words are being
quoted .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We need to make a list of quotes in the 2008 campaign season that were deemed so bad that it made more sense to boot the quotee that to try to explain the quote.
"We have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining." Ann Althouse 2008
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If yes, then perhaps the quotee would indeed consider people of your POV Christianists, Judeo-Christianists or the like.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Word I Will Gladly Continue To Use: 2007
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If you come across a dodgy quote on Abu Ghraib, and the name of the quotee sounds strangely familiar, you check Digby: Oh yeah, she's the one that runs the torture training camp in Arizona.
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Finished off a book in which I was slightly surprised to find several quotes by Robert Fripp, but given the parallel development of the author and the quotee I should not have been surprised.
[local] emergency (improv) rehearsal [1] badger 2005
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Quotes, no matter how eminent the quotee, are not gospel truth, nor are they data.
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Quotes, no matter how eminent the quotee, are not gospel truth, nor are they data.
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Ironically, the quotee is, of all things, a young German investment adviser.
Mises Dailies 2009
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Quotes, no matter how eminent the quotee, are not gospel truth, nor are they data.
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Mr. Saunders and his quotee are comparing apples to industrial watermelon farms.
Comics212 2009
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