references

Example Sentences

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“Fortissimo” dates from two years earlier than “The Pond,” but it has left overt landscape references behind.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

One of the few subtle references to President Trump came when McCartney relayed a story how the Beatles, before their Sullivan appearance, got their faces covered with bright orange makeup.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

The review also references studies involving the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Some in South Korea claim the Starbucks Korea campaign also references the 1987 movement.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Introduced was a careful sentence to bring della Porta’s discussion of the soul in line with Christian teaching, and all references to the world soul, the anima mundi, were now carefully turned into quotations.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton