references

Example Sentences

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The mural references the 1996 Three Lions song and its refrain of "football's coming home"

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2026

His poetic titles often defy translation; their layered meanings and references can only be approximated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 8, 2026

Mining the multitude of horror movie references that the show ingenuously employs?

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2026

Early in the film, De Palma establishes a base of references to grim incidents in American political history, from which he can work outward.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2026

Ken and Bob both talked so fast—their conversation filled with references to people I’d never heard of, like Stanley Kubrick and Woody Allen—that it was sometimes hard to follow them.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls