frame of reference
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Today’s lawmakers looking for a frame of reference may want to read up on the efforts to regulate a questionable trading platform of an earlier era, the “bucket shop.”
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
Its frame of reference runs deeper, and it looks for inspiration in such modernist masterpieces as I.M.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
At that time, their frame of reference came mostly from online images.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025
"I had no frame of reference of what I was getting myself into," Lawrence, 28, told BBC Sport.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2024
I had never seen a soap opera in America, so I had no frame of reference, but the Iranian soap operas were absurd.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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