refer

Example Sentences

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There was not even one tiny part of me that missed being able to refer to myself as we, so immense was the relief of freeing myself of Vagner.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

Young men jokingly refer to "monitoring the situation" – learning about the news and potential investment opportunities by scrolling social media and prediction market homepages.

From BBC • May 21, 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

And we find a third use, as in Descartes’ S45: the use of ‘hypothesis’ to refer to an argument that is acknowledged to be false but held in some way to be useful.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton