How to Use refer to as in a Sentence

refer to as

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• In any case, Truss is on what the Brits refer to as a sticky wicket.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022
• These new titles are both what people politely refer to as gift books.
  — Nora Krug, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2022
• The moon will peak on January 6, in what many refer to as the Wolf Moon.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 5 Jan. 2023
• Spend the rest of forever sleeping soundly with this sheet set that reviewers refer to as crisp, high quality, and breathable.
  — Terri Huggins Hart, Woman's Day, 1 Aug. 2022
• There are also different relationships and connections to Pele, who some refer to as a god or goddess.
  — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
• And while there are plenty of companies that do right by their employees, unions provide what investors would refer to as downside protection for members.
  — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• The bank failures reveal what many on Wall Street refer to as tail risks or black swan events—those with a slim probability of occurring.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2023
• An itchy, dry, and flaky scalp could be a sign of an allergic reaction to an ingredient in your hair products, which doctors refer to as contact dermatitis.
  — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 31 May 2022
• But the number of species that have disappeared since the beginning of the industrial revolution has caused a crisis that some refer to as the sixth mass extinction event.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
• Since signing with the Sky in February 2021, though, Parker has been on what some might refer to as a revenge tour.
  — Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2022
• One example of how this need for data is changing relates to employee sentiment, which people often refer to as employee engagement or experience.
  — Ian Cook, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• Critics view it as a form of collective punishment, confining the territory's 2 million people to what Palestinians often refer to as the world's largest open-air prison.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2022
• This is what winter-weather lovers refer to as dry snow, versus the heavy, wet snow that frequently accumulates in the Sierra Nevada during atmospheric river events.
  — Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
• From this picture, Hess constructed something that mathematicians refer to as a simplicial complex, transforming the simple graph into a voluminous shape.
  — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
• But what is less well-documented is how this imbalance creeps into our inner world — the invisible strain that sociologists refer to as mental load, or the cognitive and emotional effort that comes with being the family administrator.
  — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• Consider inflation Withdrawing assets in weaker markets early in retirement – what experts refer to as sequence-of-return risk – can ravage a portfolio, according to Carson.
  — Robert Powell, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
• Those dates also happen to be within the first half of what meteorologists refer to as the peak of hurricane season, which typically sees more Atlantic tropical storm production from mid-August to mid-October.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2022