"reference" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Certain buzzwords, like "welfare" or "crime," are meant to be negative references to black Americans.
- In the official version "negative references to acts such as torture, abuse, and extra judicial killings were blacked out without an explanation."
- Employers also refrain from giving negative references out of fear that teachers will sue for defamation.
- Any negative reference to Muslims as a group is moderated out.
- The article also made negative references to Italians and homosexuals.
- The vice president has been determined to avoid negative references to Mr. Bush over the last few weeks.
- It is, by chance, the only negative reference to an opposing player on any plaque in the Hall of Fame.
- Many quality assessment measures have been proposed to measure the degree of differentiation between a positive control and a negative reference.
- - a negative reference to the reintroduction of Catholicism.
- And there is hardly a 19th-century novel that does not include at least a passing negative reference to "a Jew."
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