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
If Leno had something to offer beyond an outdated frame of reference, he’d have a streaming series like O’Brien or Letterman.
From Salon • Jul. 31, 2025
But something even more momentous was about to shift the playwright’s frame of reference.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025
What the program needed was some frame of reference, some central point on which to build.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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