referred
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Enacted in 1996, Section 230, as it's usually referred, essentially gives legal immunity to platforms for anything that occurs on them.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Spokespeople for the EPA and the Western District of Virginia referred questions to the DOJ.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
Prediction market Kalshi referred Santos’s suspected trading in a contract that referenced his own appearance at the State of the Union.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Many Kuiper Belt objects – also referred to as trans-Neptunian objects – have been discovered orbiting the Sun, but like Uranus they don’t do so in a continuous expected direction.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
Maneuvering silently through the streets of Germany's demolished capital city—sometimes referred to as the "capital of the Cold War"—the CIA and its main adversary, the KGB, jockeyed for advantage on Bill Harvey's new battlefield.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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