referencing

present participle of reference

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Carr, who has spent decades documenting South Florida's Indigenous history, said the region's Native population had been devastated long before the American Revolution.
    Hank Tester, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • Following Folklore and Evermore, the album also saw Swift return to her autobiographical tone in her songwriting, documenting various eras of her career and personal life.
    Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • Increasingly, the focus must shift toward continuously validating the humans interacting with those systems.
    Sagar Gupta, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • At its best, the film rebuffs standard-issue 1950s heteronormativity, validating queerness at a moment when the Motion Picture Production Code forbade explicit reference to it.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 June 2026
Verb
  • More than 12,000 people have been injured, Rodríguez said, without specifying how many remain missing.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • However, Polestar will continue supporting US drivers of its EVs without specifying for how long.
    Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • This figure may be based on intuition rather than fact; Kyle Patterson, RMNP’s public affairs officer, couldn’t find any recent studies corroborating it.
    Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 26 June 2026
  • The global secondary market hit $240 billion in transaction volume in 2025—a 48% year-over-year jump and the largest year on record, according to Jefferies—with Lazard independently corroborating a 53% surge to $233 billion.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • That's a key technical level watched and used by traders, illustrating a stock or index's trend.
    Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 5 July 2026
  • Wingate weaves this historical horror with a modern-day mystery, illustrating the lasting trauma of children stolen for profit and the unbreakable bond of blood.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
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“Referencing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/referencing. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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