frame of reference
Example Sentences
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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
This is rocking Britain in a way Americans may struggle to fathom if their frame of reference is U.S. public broadcasting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
But something even more momentous was about to shift the playwright’s frame of reference.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 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
They seem to have no mathematical frame of reference and no basic understandings on which to build.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
