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Referred in sentence

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It has one in three of its children living in poverty, and it's what is referred to as a "rural ghetto."
It is sometimes referred to as Prisoner of War Camp Number 334, and it is where the Lakota now live.
And they had been referred to peacemaking to heal their relationship after a history of family abuse, sexual abuse and other issues that they'd been having in their own family and the community.
Communities such as my childhood community became referred to as "poor, vulnerable populations."
Actually the country with more telephones is the Soviet Union, and the data referred to 1989.
Something happened in the 70s that is sometimes referred to as "the software crisis," where suddenly, computers were getting more complicated more quickly than anyone had been prepared for, from a design perspective.
In fact, he would always get upset when people referred to the bombsight as his invention, because in his eyes, only God could invent things.
Suppose you have appendicitis and you're referred to a surgeon who's batting 400 on appendectomies.
And he used this following analogy: he referred to strange economists called the French physiocrats, who believed that the only true value was what you extracted from the land.
And she referred me to an orthopedic surgeon, also free.
But the problem with that is that we realized after a bunch of research that they are amazing at referring people to the nearest clinic or the public health care system, but what happens at the public health care system is this: these incredibly long lines and too many people who overload the system simply because there's not enough doctors and facilities for the population that's being referred.
So let's not forget that it's taken a lot to build this, including all those things that we tried to do in Nigeria that Dele referred to.
There's an area of your brain you've probably heard referred to as the "reward center."
I mean, all of us have heard young people referred to as "digital natives."
I was referred to a psychiatrist, who likewise took a grim view of the voice's presence, subsequently interpreting everything I said through a lens of latent insanity.
Until the funeral ceremony, which can be held years after a person's physical death, the deceased is referred to as "to makala," a sick person, or "to mama," a person who is asleep, and they continue to be a member of the household.
Yet, Rabin referred to Iran as a geostrategic friend.
These are sometimes referred to as the deserts of the oceans, but they're not deserts at all.
These are referred to as "minimization strategies," and they're designed to convey sympathy and understanding to the suspect, and they imply that a confession will result in more lenient treatment.
And this intelligence of computers is often referred to as AI or artificial intelligence.
The late, great Christopher Hitchens wrote a book called "God Is Not Great" whose subtitle was, "Religion Poisons Everything." (Laughter) But last month, in Time magazine, Rabbi David Wolpe, who I gather is referred to as America's rabbi, said, to balance that against that negative characterization, that no important form of social change can be brought about except through organized religion.
I want to live in a world where a 15-year-old girl sitting in her bedroom watching "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" isn't referred to as achieving anything because she's doing it sitting down.
Now, sometimes this theory or this model is referred to as the deductive-nomological model, mainly because academics like to make things complicated.
They're usually referred to as a model figure, a drawing that shows how we think a cellular or molecular process occurs.
As a result, they were referred to as komoidoumenoi: "those made fun of in comedy."
A lot of kids were being referred to me for ADHD, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, but when I actually did a thorough history and physical, what I found was that for most of my patients, I couldn't make a diagnosis of ADHD.
Civic tech is sometimes referred to as tech for good, using technology to solve humanitarian problems.
Because that animator was allowed to share what we referred to as his slice of genius, he was able to help that director reconceive the character in a subtle but important way that really improved the story.
Bill and his leadership team, who he referred to as his brain trust, had to figure out what to do about this situation.
He once bragged that he had turned nine out of 10 kids referred to his office as autistic by other clinicians without giving them an autism diagnosis.
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