refection

Example Sentences

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The jitters in stocks caused only a brief ripple in bonds with Treasury yields actually rising late last week, perhaps a refection of the tidal wave of borrowing underway.

From Reuters • Feb. 1, 2021

His words are a refection of his personal experience and the dynamics he’s established with the women in his life, including the wife he says he only recently realized he doesn’t entirely trust.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2015

This, of course, is more a refection on the market place than the idea itself, says Jon Myers.

From BBC • May 26, 2013

We therefore accepted the offer without demur, and tea sweetened with plenty of sugar and flavoured with cardamoms was brought, with biscuits, for our refection.

From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by Pennell, T. L. (Theodore Leighton)

Over their refection the trio returned to the all-engrossing topic,--what was to be done for the poor suffering people?--how was the despot to be softened, and the imprisoned elders saved?

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis