refer to
Example Sentences
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Open appeals against refused asylum applications refer to individuals.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
Bob Baker Marionette Theater likes to refer to itself as the largest ongoing puppet theater in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
But in recent years, print sales in such categories as biography, current affairs and business and economics—what publishers refer to as “serious nonfiction” and which tend to resonate especially with men—have fallen considerably.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
The Powell Fed, in short, offered an unprecedented level of what academics refer to as forward guidance, or indications of any sort that telegraph the likely path of short-term interest rates.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
The suffrage movement was entering a phase that many historians refer to as “the doldrums.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
