Thesaurus results for REFERRED

referred

verb

Definition of referred next

past tense of refer

as in related

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 referred The Defense Department did not comment on the costs of changing the deployment plans and the White House referred a request for comment to the department. —

Arkansas Online, 6 June 2026 Following the arrest, the CIA and FBI issued a joint statement saying CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred information uncovered during the agency’s internal investigation to federal law enforcement authorities. —

Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2026 Kalshi referred the suspicious trades to its regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and to the Justice Department, the sources said. —

Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 3 June 2026 Kalshi, an online prediction marketplace, reportedly referred Santos to the Department of Justice and CFTC after detecting suspicious trades, a source told The Associated Press. —

Adam England, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026 The Evanston Police Department referred back to the city’s comment in response to the incident. —

Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026 Santa Clara police opened an investigation into the video and later referred the case to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office. —

Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026 Kalshi detected Santos' trades, froze his account and referred the case to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice, according to a person familiar with Kalshi's investigation who was not authorized to speak publicly. —

Bobby Allyn, NPR, 2 June 2026 The White House declined to comment on the judge’s ruling and referred all questions to the Justice Department, which didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. —

Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026

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The discoveries are the latest in Egypt’s campaign to revive tourism and a battered economy, highlighted by the new Grand Egyptian Museum and record visitors despite years of upheaval, pandemic and war-related shocks.

— Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
Morsa Images | Digitalvision | Getty Images Both remote work and youth unemployment are on the rise since the Covid pandemic — and the two trends are related, according to new research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

— Annie Nova, CNBC, 1 June 2026