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It interacts very little with the surrounding plasma, making it useful as a clean reference point.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
She added that "we won't need to AI it" - a reference to a TUV councillor who posted online an AI image which exaggerated the size of a loyalist rally in Portadown.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
“What the traditional scout gives you is personal reference, like with things I learned on players that I missed on,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
“Ours does not,” he added, an apparent reference to the Army’s pre-NGC2 systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
It was the only reference he made to the bear.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Bishop’s worldly ruminations are salted with references to Saint-Exupéry, Plato and Nietzsche.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
"We weren't allowed to make any references to humanitarian law."
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
People don’t laugh at the cultural references he makes, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"It's not tartan everywhere, but if you grew up in a working-class town in the 90s, you will get a lot of the references," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Sure enough, there were several references to John Parry, in connection with an archaeological expedition.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
A rabbi referenced the runway overhaul in a recent sermon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Several were referenced in a recent city staff report.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
In it, he referenced comments made in 2014, though they seem to no longer exist on the internet.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Bergeron cited the Ethan Allen board’s “apparent unwillingness to address the need for a CEO succession,” and referenced Kathwari’s statement in an August television interview that the board has never raised the issue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The material introduced in this chapter will be referenced and built upon throughout the remainder of the book.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Last week, Wrexham's owners aimed a dig at Southampton by referencing the scandal in a social media advert before the two teams met.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
When Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ludicrously urged Americans to dress up for travel, he was referencing this imaginary age of girdles and silk-stockinged women dolled up like Veronica Lake.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
The firm issued a terse statement Thursday, saying he and others were leaving for a “smaller platform,” and referencing the firm’s ambitious growth strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
In the final season of “The Bear,” which premiered at the end of June, the show nodded to Reiner, referencing a line from his 1987 film “Princess Bride.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
My first sighting is in a news story referencing the Dark Days.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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