in reference to

Idioms  

1. see in regard to.

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Example Sentences

In 2012, he sold his stake in Farallon, which was named in reference to islands off the coast of San Francisco and was once one of the largest hedge funds in the world.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

Investors starting selling on the news Friday “like clockwork,” Bernstein analyst Peter Weed wrote, in reference to the trend of software stocks falling after Anthropic product developments.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

Tommy Lynch, from Derbyshire, said he had woken from a long sleep in the gifted navy-coloured bedding looking like "an Avatar", in reference to the blue beings from the blockbuster film.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

The team derived a new equation called the q-desic equation, named in reference to classical geodesics.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

But something was missing in my imaginative efforts; my flights of imagination were too subjective, too lacking in reference to social action.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright