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Framing is an opportunity to break the tremendous power of the image in relation to its referent.
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This is very unlikely to happen in the sonic dimension, because sound is ambiguous in respect with its referent.
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Though Cortini is best known as an occasional keyboardist with Nine Inch Nails, that band’s sound has virtually nothing to do with his solo work, which is the closest referent to his King tribute.
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That black Americans have a month set aside to honor them — outside of a white lens that has often framed them as criminal, negligent, or unworthy of historical referent — isn’t racist against anyone.
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Too many college students were never taught the basic referents of liberal education.
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Mr. Diehl’s clearest referents are the swinging hard-bop pianists John Lewis and Cedar Walton.
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Origin and Etymology of referent
Latin referent-, referens, present participle of referre
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