refer to
Example Sentences
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Bob Baker Marionette Theater likes to refer to itself as the largest ongoing puppet theater in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
He told the BBC researchers behind the project refer to hedgehogs equipped with trackers as "digi-hogs".
From BBC • May 18, 2026
But in recent years, print sales in such categories as biography, current affairs and business and economics—what publishers refer to as “serious nonfiction” and which tend to resonate especially with men—have fallen considerably.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
The Powell Fed, in short, offered an unprecedented level of what academics refer to as forward guidance, or indications of any sort that telegraph the likely path of short-term interest rates.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
We tried not to name them, these beasts we hoped to tame, but we had to refer to them somehow.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
