referenced

Definition of referencednext
past tense of reference

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Security company Trend Micro has documented that actors who’ve worked on past operations benefiting the North Korean government have used these addresses, particularly in scams involving fake recruiters.
    Jessica Klein, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Arguments against generational smoking laws The tobacco industry’s attempts to undermine tobacco health policies are well documented and follow a predictable pattern.
    Marie Helweg-Larsen, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • No back orders, unless specified by the individual vendor.
    Tory Johnson, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Neither the email nor the announcement on the clinic’s website specified why the Fertility Center of Orlando was closing or whether McNichol would be among the employees continuing to provide care.
    Elizabeth Chuck, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Witnesses corroborated Arielle Konig's account of what happened.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Hager’s account was corroborated by an ARC client who overlapped with him.
    Alex Acquisto, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Key components of the O2O’s design have already been validated in a series of demonstrations dating back more than a decade.
    Adam Bluestein, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Everyone could wake up in their lives right now and start to acknowledge things that have happened to them, but to get healing and to be seen and to be validated at the other end of it, wow.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • City’s second goal, which in effect ended the game, illustrated both.
    Andy Jones, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • An even bigger difference in Mitski’s live show this time around is the sheer amount of film footage put up on screen behind her and the band, all of it chosen with some apparent thought toward the song being illustrated.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Apr. 2026
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“Referenced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/referenced. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.

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