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Example sentences for: cite
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Daily newswires are filled with announcements of upgrades and downgrades from brokerage houses, while market-wrap articles often cite analysts' reports not as commentary but as news in their own right.
(When administration officials cite "ample constitutional precedent," it is this "ample," but hardly constitutional, record, to which they are referring.)
...I heard this many years ago on at least one other occasion from a very knowledgeable South African friend who explained that he could not cite a reference but regarded it as common knowledge.
When you present the data, cite the source(s) and state that the data were not assessed.
I have encountered it in South Carolina and Georgia, and Thomas Wolfe puts it into the mouth of one of his characters in (I think) Look Homeward, Angel . I have assumed that it derivers from the French expression manquer faire `just miss doing, almost do,' the primary meaning of manquer being `to lack,' which could have shifted into colloquial usage as like . I cite this merely as a possibility, definitive proof being pretty hard to dig up.