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ref

noun as in judge

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Afterward, Lasik.com posted a video of the missed interference call, along with a friendly reminder: “Obviously, we’re still offering NFL refs free LASIK.”

But by the time he left the court, flipping the ball to the ref in frustration after his sixth turnover, the party was over.

“Look, you can complain about the refs,” John Podhoretz, editor of conservative Commentary magazine, wrote on X. “But if the pass is incomplete, the play is dead.”

“Are you going to protect me tonight, ref?”

Asked after the game if she thought it was the appropriate call, Reese said: “It was a basketball play. I can’t control the refs. They affected the game obviously a lot tonight.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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