refer to
Example Sentences
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You don’t need to refer to prior events to justify how much you step forward or not.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Clearly, some of these pictures refer to Fascism and the Nazis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The key Argentinian figures we refer to nowadays are constantly changing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
"Psychoanalysts refer to the tendency in the mind to recreate familiar relational patterns, even when these are poorly adapted," says Stänicke.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026
First, a ‘waste book’, in which you recorded everything exactly as it happened, in as much detail as possible: you could refer to this in the event of any future dispute or confusion.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
