How to Use refer to as in a Sentence

refer to as

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• In any case, Truss is on what the Brits refer to as a sticky wicket.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022
• The moon will peak on January 6, in what many refer to as the Wolf Moon.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 5 Jan. 2023
• Since signing with the Sky in February 2021, though, Parker has been on what some might refer to as a revenge tour.
  — Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2022
• These new titles are both what people politely refer to as gift books.
  — Nora Krug, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2022
• The bank failures reveal what many on Wall Street refer to as tail risks or black swan events—those with a slim probability of occurring.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2023
• Spend the rest of forever sleeping soundly with this sheet set that reviewers refer to as crisp, high quality, and breathable.
  — Terri Huggins Hart, Woman's Day, 1 Aug. 2022
• But the number of species that have disappeared since the beginning of the industrial revolution has caused a crisis that some refer to as the sixth mass extinction event.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
• There are also different relationships and connections to Pele, who some refer to as a god or goddess.
  — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
• And while there are plenty of companies that do right by their employees, unions provide what investors would refer to as downside protection for members.
  — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• An itchy, dry, and flaky scalp could be a sign of an allergic reaction to an ingredient in your hair products, which doctors refer to as contact dermatitis.
  — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 31 May 2022
• Critics view it as a form of collective punishment, confining the territory's 2 million people to what Palestinians often refer to as the world's largest open-air prison.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2022
• This is what winter-weather lovers refer to as dry snow, versus the heavy, wet snow that frequently accumulates in the Sierra Nevada during atmospheric river events.
  — Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
• Those relationships may lead to an influx of severe emotional abuse.1 Sometimes, that abuse leads to what some mental health providers colloquially refer to as narcissistic abuse syndrome.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 1 May 2023
• Those dates also happen to be within the first half of what meteorologists refer to as the peak of hurricane season, which typically sees more Atlantic tropical storm production from mid-August to mid-October.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2022
• One example of how this need for data is changing relates to employee sentiment, which people often refer to as employee engagement or experience.
  — Ian Cook, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• From this picture, Hess constructed something that mathematicians refer to as a simplicial complex, transforming the simple graph into a voluminous shape.
  — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
• Consider inflation Withdrawing assets in weaker markets early in retirement – what experts refer to as sequence-of-return risk – can ravage a portfolio, according to Carson.
  — Robert Powell, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
• But what is less well-documented is how this imbalance creeps into our inner world — the invisible strain that sociologists refer to as mental load, or the cognitive and emotional effort that comes with being the family administrator.
  — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024