as in to apply
to have a relation or connection
I don't think that rule of play refers to this particular situation
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Recent Examples of refer
Law enforcement referred multiple charges.
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Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
The State Department referred questions to DHS.
—Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
The White House and Federal Housing Finance Authority, whose director initiated the mortgage fraud investigations into Cook, James, and Schiff, referred Semafor to the DOJ.
—Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025
The White House referred The Hill to press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s response disputing Leo’s stance from last week.
—Max Rego, The Hill, 8 Oct. 2025
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Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
The State Department referred questions to DHS.
—Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
The White House and Federal Housing Finance Authority, whose director initiated the mortgage fraud investigations into Cook, James, and Schiff, referred Semafor to the DOJ.
—Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025
The White House referred The Hill to press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s response disputing Leo’s stance from last week.
—Max Rego, The Hill, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refer
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In their new study, the team successfully applied the same time-reversal idea to optical clocks.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025
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The new tax will apply to specific transactions made with cash, money orders, cashier’s checks or similar physical instruments.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Hanke relates that it was riddled with loopholes that handed the Banco Central de la República Argentina discretionary monetary powers.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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This is interesting because the two teams feature several players who are related, a fact that does not come up very often.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Chatbots are known to validate users’ obsessions and delusions, and most of the litigation around this phenomenon has so far pertained to self-harm, as in the suits Jain has brought against OpenAI and Character Technologies.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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People from across all walks of life are asked around 50 questions pertaining to the economy, personal finances, job prospects, inflation expectations and the like.—
Joanne Hsu,
The Conversation,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Refer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refer. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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