refer
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His legal team have asked me to refer to it as “selling tulips.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
“Of course he also refers to the Second World War, and he does refer to Stalin—but not that much. Far more often he talks about the great Russian czars.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Hamilton said the decision to refer the case to the Court of Session "had not been taken lightly".
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Scientists refer to this period as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
What other sports team names can you think of that refer to armed conflict?
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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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