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Active listings refer to all the homes on the market for sale, while new listings refer to homes that have just been listed.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
To refer to the Manhattanite rock quintet as third best in any context feels like music sacrilege.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
"In order to turn the natural latex into something that we refer to as rubber it goes through this process called sulphur vulcanisation," she explained.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
The Eliza effect may refer to an overattribution of human smarts to AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
It can refer to one gene, a configuration of genes, or even an entire genome.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The chart below shows the decline in manufacturing jobs in the St. Louis metro area, which refers to surrounding regions such as St. Louis County and St. Charles County.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
"Farming" refers to repetitive tactics used to gain points in video games.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez refers to the “Overton window,” which decides when outré ideas may be discussed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Low-impact exercise refers to exercises where you keep at least one foot on the ground, or support the body in some other way.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Thin-slicing” refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
However, that number referred to the number of people who kept it on after turning it on.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
She referred questions about arrests to the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
In a letter seen by the BBC, Montagliani referred to the "governance crisis surrounding Fifa", before asking Infantino to reconsider attending the the CFU Under-14 Series event.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Trump has referred to the 504-acre property that he purchased in 2002 as his Summer White House, and he frequently decamps there for the weekends when it is too hot in Palm Beach, Fla.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
My father occasionally referred to me as "Smart Guy," but eventually I realized that when saying it, he usually meant just the opposite.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
US negotiators also made unacceptable "threats" to the French language and "Quebec culture," he said, referring to the French-speaking province in eastern Canada.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
They appear at first to be the writer’s own story, reflections on the past and life apart from M; the “we” in these sections might be referring to siblings or partners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
"September 12th, right?" he said, referring to Garcia's fight with Benn, which is scheduled to take place in the same Las Vegas ring.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Russ Vought and myself will be examining both on the revenue side and the cost side what we can do,” Bessent said, referring to the head of the White House’s budget office.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 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
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