refer
Example Sentences
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His legal team have asked me to refer to it as “selling tulips.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
“Sometimes I’ll refer to myself as the Chief Truth Teller, just so I can be really candid.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Scientists refer to this as a Trojan horse effect, and the researchers say it may also play a role in the spread of antibiotic resistance.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
"Ghost kitchens" refer to takeaway merchants on food delivery platforms with no physical shop fronts.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
The woman was wearing what people in the South refer to as "hog washers," the sort of denim overalls favored by farmers.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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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