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Example sentences for: referent

How can you use “referent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

As for the Oval Office , it is mostly used when the referent is `authority of the executive branch of the government' to avoid identifying the (incumbent) president personally and to indicate official policy.
The referent study population comprised 4,226 infants born between 1986-1991 to 7,564 female and 10,518 male participants in the New York State Angler Cohort Study (NYSACS).
The article in the second half of the phrase, both makes the phrase appositional and indicates the upgrading of the referent.
Cassidy offered an intriguing explanation: the metaphor probably originated in Caribbean folklore, which has it that sea turtles (the referent for caouane in standard French dictionaries) copulate for a hundred days at a time.
Rather, for each data permutation, we standardized the Welch statistic using an appropriate t referent distribution and used the resultant " p values" as described in the Method section; see also Westfall and Young [ 17 ] . By so taking into account between-group heterogeneity, Welch-SAM identified a set of up regulated genes that were not detected by t -SAM.