without reference
Example Sentences
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Police departments routinely categorize honor-based incidents under generic domestic-violence headings—often reporting them without reference to ideological motives.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
The Civil War amendments – the 13th, 14th and 15th – established inherent equality as a constitutional value, which embraced all persons born in the nation without reference to race, ethnicity or origin.
From Salon • Dec. 9, 2025
On the podcast, without reference to any particular team, Trump said middle-class fans are “your biggest sports fans.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
An AFM spokesperson confirmed, without reference to the Exor deal, that there is no legal obstacle to an investor jumping various thresholds in terms of accumulating a shareholding in a single day.
From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2023
It was so weighty and influential a body that no step of any importance could ever be taken by the tribe without reference to it.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
