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refer

[ri-fur] / rɪˈfɜr /






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Young men jokingly refer to "monitoring the situation" – learning about the news and potential investment opportunities by scrolling social media and prediction market homepages.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Bob Baker Marionette Theater likes to refer to itself as the largest ongoing puppet theater in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

But in recent years, print sales in such categories as biography, current affairs and business and economics—what publishers refer to as “serious nonfiction” and which tend to resonate especially with men—have fallen considerably.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

The Powell Fed, in short, offered an unprecedented level of what academics refer to as forward guidance, or indications of any sort that telegraph the likely path of short-term interest rates.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

We don’t even refer to her—leastways not in front of my mother.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings




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