refer to
Example Sentences
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His legal team have asked me to refer to it as “selling tulips.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Scientists refer to this as a Trojan horse effect, and the researchers say it may also play a role in the spread of antibiotic resistance.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
“Of course he also refers to the Second World War, and he does refer to Stalin—but not that much. Far more often he talks about the great Russian czars.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
"Ghost kitchens" refer to takeaway merchants on food delivery platforms with no physical shop fronts.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
I refer to A Continuation of the New Digester of Bones, published by Denis Papin in 1687.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
