referent

Example Sentences

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And if we cannot find a referent for the normal and the good, how can we possibly come back from our national neurosis?

From Slate • Aug. 18, 2024

You can tweak a reference all you like, but the referent will stay just the same.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

“It’s not the most typical referent for ‘sandwich,’” he mused.

From The Verge • Apr. 9, 2020

I mention driving difficulties only as a referent for the ways in which Haiti struggles.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2017

Erastis had always said he would need a referent, something in the physical world to anchor him in the seas of light that spanned all of history.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee