references

Example Sentences

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He references the emotional intelligence of the male characters, and the way they appreciate their female counterparts.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

“Fortissimo” dates from two years earlier than “The Pond,” but it has left overt landscape references behind.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

It also fails to mention key issues in the campaign, such as foreign policy, and sparse references to other key issues like healthcare, housing and affordability.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

The review also references studies involving the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

I find these references to bad times vaguely threatening, vaguely insulting: I am not the sort of girl who has bad times, I have good times only.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood