reference
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I used my husband as a reference for inspiration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
He says he never doubted his friend's trustworthiness, to the extent he even named Berry as a reference on his application for a security pass for the Palace of Westminster.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Shadyside Partners, the name of Lamarco’s LLC, is a reference to a neighborhood in the Steel City.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
The independence of the high court is also an important reference point for the rule of law throughout the Americas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Had Darwin looked carefully through the books in his voluminous library, he might have found a reference to an obscure paper by a little-known botanist from Brno.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The following year, references to the Korean Peninsula as a whole were removed from the national anthem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Leo littered his speech with fond references to Peru's landscape and culture, telling the Catholic clergy to think of their mission as a difficult but rewarding walk, like the path that leads to Machu Picchu.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
At the sentencing hearing, Brand's barrister Ian Winter KC put forward six character references, including one from Georgina Baillie, the granddaughter of the late actor Andrew Sachs.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
He’ll pepper the discussion with references to the Bible, classic poetry, medieval poetry, Shakespeare, literature and movies.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
Trawling through gigabytes of data, he found hundreds of references to fairies from nearly every country in the world.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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Fisher referenced this appeal, adding the UK "has an incredibly centralised food system with 95% of the food we eat bought from nine supermarkets".
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Barrot only directly referenced attacks against French supermarket systems, which he said targeted 700 sites.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
He referenced Michael Moore and Ross McElwee films as similar cases in which a director becomes an on-screen presence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Sridhar referenced a comment made by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, that every quarter delay in a gigawatt data center translates to $10 billion of missed revenue.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
She was about to search with different keywords when she saw a link to a map of sites referenced in The Maltese Falcon as well as places Dashiell Hammett had lived.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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“Before, they were rare, but in the last two months there have been an avalanche of them,” said Suiche, who has dubbed the freezer attacks “Fromage-gate,” referencing the French word for cheese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Along with Abrams, Dawn Greenberg, a 63-year-old Conley supporter, and several other women showed up at Saturday’s rally with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in Peekskill with T-shirts and buttons referencing Conley’s line.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
"Specific dates and locations could be discussed through Panmunjom," said Kim, referencing the symbolic truce village where troops from both Koreas stand face-to-face.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The lesson Holmes is referencing is the couple’s big relationship reveal, which happened while they were both anchors on “GMA3” and married to other people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
My first sighting is in a news story referencing the Dark Days.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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