reference
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One groom insisted the invitations include a reference to the snickerdoodle cookies he bakes with his fiancée.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
There were no surprises from coach Roberto Martinez as he named a squad of "27 players plus one", a reference to former Liverpool forward Diogo Jota, who died in a car crash last July.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
The adsorption rate of the reference strain dropped sharply to just 3%, while strain CBA3656 maintained a far stronger binding level of 57%.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
He claims his studio jokingly referred to the piece internally as the “golden calf” from the beginning, a reference critics online quickly seized upon after the statue’s unveiling.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
For later readers this was the paradigmatic account of discovery; Vergil, who certainly read Vitruvius, makes no reference to it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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