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Example Sentences
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Though many refer to these plants as “flowers,” they are actually an “inflorescence,” a flowering structure containing hundreds of smaller blooms inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Clearly, some of these pictures refer to Fascism and the Nazis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Although academics refer to a 23% gain, client anecdotes suggest a rise of about 34%, said Dong and Briggs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
"Psychoanalysts refer to the tendency in the mind to recreate familiar relational patterns, even when these are poorly adapted," says Stänicke.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026
The term ‘relativism’ is contentious, but I use it, rather than ‘constructivism’, because I want to refer to those who hold that reality does not constrain the beliefs we can hold about the real world.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
