How to Use frame of reference in a Sentence
frame of reference
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Bronny is a good player, perhaps even a great one, depending on your frame of reference.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
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There’s a frame of reference, though, which could help.
—Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
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So long as your frame of reference doesn’t go as far back as Edward Scissorhands.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
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That’s at least partly because of my frame of reference.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
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What was your frame of reference for him during casting?
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
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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
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Or at least an inability to escape their frame of reference.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
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Cooper might be someone with a similar frame of reference, and he’s spent enough time with Shayk to understand the demands of modeling too.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2023
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By way of explaining the strategic and tactical rationale of what was about to happen, the source resorted to a common frame of reference: the story of King Saul’s robe.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024
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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
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However, this frame of reference, called heliocentrism, still is not the best frame for everything.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2010
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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
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Subtly changing light loosens the spatial geometry, altering the frame of reference around the eternity of landscape and sky seen out the windows.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
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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
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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
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Now, the frame of reference is changing, with proponents of surveillance presenting a false dichotomy: give away your location or people will die.
—Katie Joseff, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2020
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Confuse consumers by defining a new category without a frame of reference.
—Steve Blank, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
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And there is another multifaceted way in which birds exceed our standard human frames of reference and appear like strange and extraordinary creatures: in the sharpness of their senses, whether of hearing, sight or even smell.
—Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
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Einstein showed that events are not simultaneous in different physical frames of reference if one frame is traveling relative to the other.
—Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
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That frame of reference often makes cooperative gaming, a genre that’s having a moment with 2023 quite possibly the best year for new cooperative titles in the hobby’s history, seem rather strange to new players.
—Keith Law, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
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