Example Sentences

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The frames of reference were, in retrospect, incompatible.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025

The researchers now hope to study whether other concepts, such as frames of reference for time, may spread from Spanish to Tsimane' speakers who become bilingual.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023

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?

From Scientific American • Jun. 26, 2023

"He was a 62-year-old who grew up on a horse farm in rural Indiana. I was a 23-year-old who grew up in Tribeca in lower Manhattan - our frames of reference couldn't be more different."

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2022

The young Einstein rebelled against the notion of privileged frames of reference in physics as much as he did in politics.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan