refer
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The settlement is not yet final, however, as either side may refer it back to the Supreme Court.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
In the Mid-City neighborhood where Syd grew up, lots of people now refer to this 34-year-old musician as the mayor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
“None of the first 10 amendments reference the rights of citizens. They refer to the rights of the people.”
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
You don’t need to refer to prior events to justify how much you step forward or not.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
But once it became common to refer to Copernicanism as an hypothesis, then other hypotheses—magnetical, atomic, mechanical—multiplied.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Churn refers to the rate at which customers leave a network.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
It says that of every five cases the police refers to it, four result in charges being brought.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The US president refers to Munir as his "favourite field marshal", following their acquaintance in the aftermath of conflict with India that Trump helped mediate last year.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Danielle Pinnock’s character, a Jamaican woman who is taken to America by a wizened older man she refers to as the “old raisin,” has a brassy boldness and bawdiness that also seduces the audience’s affections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The term sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women, while gender refers to society’s constructed roles, expectations, behaviors, attitudes, and activities that it deems appropriate for men and women.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Bessent specifically referred to the distillation process, saying US authorities were "finding watermarks of our US large language models on many of the Chinese models, and that's unacceptable."
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
CoreWeave is often referred to as a “neocloud,” but the company rejects that term because it doesn’t describe what it does, only making the point that it follows an earlier generation of clouds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Recently, a tennis coach casually referred to LeVine as an athlete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
His work has earned international recognition, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2018, often referred to as Asia's Nobel Prize.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Inside the NKVD, the group was referred to as "the Magnificent Five."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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“Where is Roker?” he asked, referring to “Today” weather anchor Al Roker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
"Previously, no large language model had ever achieved a perfect score under the IMO's official judging process," the firm added, referring to the tech that underpins AI tools like chatbots.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
B. Riley analyst Mike Crawford summed up the political-military scene in a note to clients on Thursday by referring to “an emerging generational recapitalization of global defense posture and budgets.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
“You’re in the middle of this conversation, you make your attack perfectly tailored,” he said, referring to the scammer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Even Susan B. Anthony chose to express her anger and disappointment at Stone’s choice to marry by referring to her as Mrs. Henry Blackwell.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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