referent
Example Sentences
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And if we cannot find a referent for the normal and the good, how can we possibly come back from our national neurosis?
From Slate • Aug. 18, 2024
"But that would be sad to me, to have lost the referent."
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2023
“We can use terms successfully not because we know much about the referent but because we’re linked to the referent by a great social chain of communication.”
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2022
You can tweak a reference all you like, but the referent will stay just the same.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021
Erastis had always said he would need a referent, something in the physical world to anchor him in the seas of light that spanned all of history.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
