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refer

/ˈɹifɚ/ noun C2
  1. A blurb on the front page of a newspaper issue or section that refers the reader to the full story inside the issue or section by listing its slug or headline and its page number.

Plural refers

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“To what do you refer?
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 810 · C1
“It was perfectly obvious to me, on reading the Ritual, that the measurements must refer to some spot to which the rest of the document alluded, and that if we could find that spot, we should be in a fair way towards finding what the secret was which the old Musgraves had thought it necessary to embalm in so curious a fashion.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 17 · B2
Our second post is now overdue, and I shall be surprised if it does not bring us either a further letter of explanation, or, as is more probable, the very volume to which these figures refer.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 4 · C1
“There are some other points, no doubt; but we can refer to you as they arise.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 60 · C1

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