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“Cited” or “Sighted” or “Sited”

cited / sighted / sited are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

cited s·AY·t·ah·d

No dictionary entry for this spelling — see the usage examples below for how it shows up in writing.

sighted s·AY·t·ah·d

  • verbtake aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device).
  • adjectiveable to see.

sited s·AY·t·ih·d

No dictionary entry for this spelling — see the usage examples below for how it shows up in writing.

Usage

Examples in context

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“cited”

  • …and CEO Andrew Torba has cited "the entirely left-leaning Big Social…
  • When cited as from an album, charting…
  • …alternative foreign movies is often cited as being the advantage of…
  • …case Re Burley (1865) was cited to demonstrate that Canada should…
  • The case has been cited in a number of subsequent…
  • …machine learning, which have been cited thousands of times according to…
  • …make this point the Court cited Altun v. Germany (1983), a…
  • …communities, work that has been cited over 20,000 times according to…
  • He is regularly cited in the press on topics…
  • Elton's writings were cited by George Orwell in his…

“sighted”

  • …the black bittern have been sighted in the locality by the…
  • …first European reported to have sighted the Hawaiian Islands, and the…
  • …(Felis pardina), can occasionally be sighted; the picturesque Bay of Cádiz;…
  • …on station, her commanding officer sighted a Mitsubishi A6M "Zeke" fighter…
  • On 3 December 1800, he sighted what at first he thought…
  • …aerial vehicles (UAVs, or "drones") sighted near airplanes in the United…
  • …gunman from the UVF was sighted at the scene of the
  • …he had with his previous, sighted life.
  • Only one enemy aircraft was sighted by Pattle, though none of…
  • …eulophotes) and Black-winged cuckoo-shrike were sighted in the area.

“sited”

  • It is sited downstream of heavily forested country,…
  • …into action on 27 December, sited forward of the bridge between…
  • Derwentside College, formerly sited at Park Road, moved to…
  • …building of Raffles Institution was sited on Bras Basah Road.
  • …late 1930s proved to be sited too close to the annual…
  • …structure, about long and deep, sited to give good views of…
  • …Jersey City Public Library is sited on the intersection itself.
  • …el-Amwat (or Zawyet el-Mayitin), are sited on the west bank of…
  • The old town is picturesquely sited and still surrounded by most…
  • …island's desalination plant is also sited in the parish.

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