refection

Example Sentences

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The jitters in stocks caused only a brief ripple in bonds with Treasury yields actually rising late last week, perhaps a refection of the tidal wave of borrowing underway.

From Reuters • Feb. 1, 2021

His words are a refection of his personal experience and the dynamics he’s established with the women in his life, including the wife he says he only recently realized he doesn’t entirely trust.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2015

This, of course, is more a refection on the market place than the idea itself, says Jon Myers.

From BBC • May 26, 2013

Appearances suggested a refection which had not previously occurred, and which tended to console her.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

For three weeks prior to the dissolution the Queen had sat by his bedside, performing for him every office which a sick man could require, and depriving herself of all rest and refection.

From Glimpses of King William IV. and Queen Adelaide In Letters of the Late Miss Clitherow, of Boston House, Middlesex. With a Brief Account of Boston House and the Clitherow Family by Clitherow, Mary