refer
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Happy consumers tend to refer Carvana to 10 other friends—the benefits of which probably won’t be fully seen until 2029 to 2031 as U.S. consumers tend to buy used cars every seven years.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
Typically, when a defense attorney raises questions about their client’s mental fitness, judges refer such cases to the mental health court in Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
While OpenAI lawyers refer to his notes as a journal, Musk’s lawyers have repeatedly called it a diary, as in: “Let me go back to your diary—your journal, excuse me.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
In that event, of course, AI’s track record will be artificially inflated by what statisticians refer to as “hindsight bias.”
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
Sociologists refer to the ways a culture remembers catastrophes like the tsunami as “disaster memory.”
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Vocabulary lists containing refer
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 2
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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