How to Use frame of reference in a Sentence

frame of reference

noun phrase
  • That’s the right frame of reference.
    — Ajit Sahu, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • What outlaw road movies did you and your crew use as a frame of reference?
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • That’s his entire frame of reference.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • This might be a helpful frame of reference to share with Matthews’ children.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • These figures are best used as a frame of reference, not a precise prescription.
    — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • So long as your frame of reference doesn’t go as far back as Edward Scissorhands.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Any other frame of reference would just throw them into malfunction.
    — Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Bronny is a good player, perhaps even a great one, depending on your frame of reference.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
  • The laws of physics could therefore differ for observers in different frames of reference.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Is an alternative to the canon possible if the frame of reference remains the same?
    — Manuel Borja-Villel, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
  • This is not meant to provide Nix with an excuse, but an appropriate frame of reference.
    — Troy Renck The Denver Post, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Regardless of an observer’s motion or frame of reference, the physics should remain the same.
    — Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The questions and concerns weighing on our children and grandchildren, after all, should be a frame of reference for us all.
    — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Mom was very private, and most people had no frame of reference of really what her true personality was.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 June 2023
  • How much time elapses between events, and what time something happens, depends on the observer’s frame of reference.
    — Adrian Bardon, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
  • By contrast, 22-29-year-olds have a different frame of reference.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2025
  • But when the grind triggers that frame of reference, Hall explained, the models have a rich vein of source material to draw from.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The researchers also devised a way of using a frame of reference for the controller that varies with the user's direction.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2010
  • The atmosphere is a fluid within a rotating frame of reference.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
  • People can also encounter moments where their spatial sense of self separates from their usual frame of reference.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
  • However, this frame of reference, called heliocentrism, still is not the best frame for everything.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2010
  • Confuse consumers by defining a new category without a frame of reference.
    — Steve Blank, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • His knowledge of the store is assembled from family lore, a few artifacts and cultural frames of reference.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
  • Can strands of data give an accurate frame of reference as opposed to subjective or meaningless rankings?
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • For a frame of reference, picture the Statue of Liberty, who lifts her torch to a height of 305 feet.
    — Ellyn Lapointe, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The blind spots in any model are easier to catch when the people reviewing it don't all share the same background, experience and frame of reference.
    — Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • This works tolerably well when a family is small and operating within a common frame of reference.
    — Sharon Olson, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • But what about the poster on how consciousness can be explained by relativity, which provides a way to unite first-person and third-person frames of reference?
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
  • The nose bears a family resemblance to the Ariya, and the body style is sort of a crossover, sort of a fastback sedan, depending on your frame of reference.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That's because your frame of reference, the seemingly motionless elevator car, is in fact zooming upward.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 5 July 2024

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