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/saɪt/ · verb
(transitive) To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another..
WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.
According to the tribe’s chairman, rangers cited five of the demonstrators, who had traveled to Nevada from New York, Washington, California and the European country of Malta. The chairman did not say what they were cited for.
We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.
Use cite when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cite means (transitive) To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another..
Common synonyms include acknowledge, reference, advert, name.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
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