ref
Example Sentences
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Christopher: Swearing at the ref or any abusive language = immediate red card and a four-match ban.
From BBC
And yet these human refs are trained, too, and this one nailed it.
Courts, like hockey refs, are often slow with their whistles.
“I’m not very feisty with refs. I don’t scream at them so that when I do talk to them, they’ll listen,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
But “the refs got too much s— from people,” she said, and were repeatedly accused of bias.
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