refer to
Example Sentences
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The venue has changed title sponsors and is officially called Banorte Stadium or Mexico City Stadium during the World Cup, but Mexicans continue to refer to it as Azteca.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
“Of course he also refers to the Second World War, and he does refer to Stalin—but not that much. Far more often he talks about the great Russian czars.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Scientists refer to this period as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
He did not, however, directly refer to the US plans to establish the Ebola treatment centre.
From BBC • May 29, 2026
But once it became common to refer to Copernicanism as an hypothesis, then other hypotheses—magnetical, atomic, mechanical—multiplied.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
