Example Sentences

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The market breadth I am referring to here is the “traditional” breadth: the daily number of advancing issues minus the number of declining issues.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 30, 2025

I am referring to addiction treatment, defined by the National Institute on Drug Abuse as treatment designed to help people stop using, stay clean and get their lives back together.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2022

In this case, however, I am referring to resources: hospital beds, staff members, equipment and how to prioritize which medical needs should be addressed first.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2021

By cosmological emptiness, I am referring to the absence of any animating set of principles and beliefs about human nature, history, society and politics which is grounded in the mystery of creation itself.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2020

I am referring, after all, to a series of very minor errors on my part and the course I am now pursuing is merely a means of preempting any 'problems' before one arises.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro