frame of reference

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You need to pick art that you think you’re going to enjoy, that speaks to you, that you have a frame of reference for.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Today’s lawmakers looking for a frame of reference may want to read up on the efforts to regulate a questionable trading platform of an earlier era, the “bucket shop.”

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Its frame of reference runs deeper, and it looks for inspiration in such modernist masterpieces as I.M.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

But in doing the research, I kept seeing cases like Wells’ critique, and that changed my entire frame of reference.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2024

While Madison's frame of reference was instinctively political, and idealized the dispersal of power naturally checked by the inherent diversity of diffused interest groups, Hamilton’s cast of mind was instinctively economic.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis