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frame of reference
noun as in standards for judging or deciding
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This is rocking Britain in a way Americans may struggle to fathom if their frame of reference is U.S. public broadcasting.
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Its frame of reference runs deeper, and it looks for inspiration in such modernist masterpieces as I.M.
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I didn’t know how much I was learning because I had no frame of reference for any of it.
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The frames of reference were, in retrospect, incompatible.
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If Leno had something to offer beyond an outdated frame of reference, he’d have a streaming series like O’Brien or Letterman.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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