referent
Example Sentences
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The volumetric, jug-like form of “Martinique” emphasizes clay’s eternal role as a vessel, which the artist fills with new meanings by virtue of her chosen forms and referents.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2024
We’ve added words to the dictionary; we’ve transformed memes into instantly recognizable referents; we can also spawn new norms with startling turnover.
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2022
The most vividly stylized pick on this list, “Afro Samurai” is an entrancingly jarring hodgepodge of cultural referents.
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2020
Sure, the album is chockful of cultural referents — from the loopy Doors-like lyrical stylings of “Bury a Friend” and tape loops from "The Office" to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
From Salon • May 10, 2019
The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
