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You don’t need to refer to prior events to justify how much you step forward or not.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is set to refer parts of the bill to France's Constitutional Council for examination before it can become law.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Just as audiences naturally refer to the Disney princess as “she,” she argues it feels natural to think of Tilly the same way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

“Suddenly, they referred to me as they used to refer to my father. Something dawned upon me: that I was the king now.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

One day, he said, a trader began to refer to Ne-kah-e-se-y as Jimmy.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

"AI slop" refers to the flood of AI-generated text, video and audio content that has inundated social media in recent years.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

The sign of Sapiens ancestry as suggested by the authors refers to a very ancient episode, around 250,000 years ago.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026

The vehicle, Arctos Keystone Partners Fund I, is the largest debut fund in the so-called general-partner or GP-solutions category, which refers to funds that provide financing to private-markets managers, KKR said Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Paper silver, which refers to financial instruments tracking the price of the metal — such as futures contracts — is being “sold off while access to physical silver is becoming more strategically important,” Skoyles said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

In this period the word ‘model’ is ambiguous: it can carry the modern meaning but more often it refers to a graphic representation, a plan or drawing.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Although receipt of the letter does not indicate that someone definitively cheated, an unspecified number of cases have been referred to district attorneys for prosecution, the spokesperson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

He repeatedly referred to my husband and me as “you guys” and even “you guyses.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

As part of her ruling, Williams referred Trump’s lawyer Alejandro Brito to Florida bar authorities to determine whether any disciplinary action is appropriate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Conference, an annual meetup of the nation’s cultural power brokers that’s colloquially referred to as “billionaire sleepaway camp.”

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

Jones organized his people into the Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln, which Jones referred to as the “great party of freedom,” to make them a political force.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

A White House spokesperson declined to answer questions from ProPublica, referring them to the FBI.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

She added: "It seems strange that we are having this conversation on a day like today", referring to England's World Cup semi-final game against Argentina later on Wednesday.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

"The decision-makers now know practically everything there is to know about the saltworks," the 57-year-old said, referring to the numerous studies and plans discussed by governments over the years.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Some objected to referring to the digital character as “she” or “her.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Struggling to think through the implications of Vespucci’s claim, they needed a way of referring to what we call the Earth, or the world—the single globe formed of land and sea.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton