The phrase "almost certainly refers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate a high level of confidence about the reference being made, but with a slight uncertainty.
Example: "The term 'quantum entanglement' almost certainly refers to a phenomenon in quantum physics where particles become interconnected."
Alternatives: "most likely refers" or "probably refers".
This almost certainly refers — by way of Gematria, the Jewish numerological system — to the contemporary Emperor Nero.
Deccan almost certainly refers to the Deccan Plateau located in the South of India, an area that is becoming a hot spot for militant recruitment and operation.
Big Peaceful Water, Big Pond and Snake Lake are among the various translations of a word that almost certainly refers to the 593-acre body of water that distinguishes the hamlets: Lake Mahopac.
A scholion to Theocritus, Idyll 3.40 appears to attribute the story of Atalanta to "Hesiod in book 3", a method of citation that almost certainly refers to the present poem.
But the reimbursement almost certainly refers to the $130,000 in hush money that Cohen paid to the adult film star Stormy Daniels to ensure she'd keep quiet about an alleged affair she had with Trump in 2006.
Miller was almost certainly referring to what he perceived to be dirty play by Fox.
Although the report does not identify the country that manufactured and delivered the weapons, Pentagon analysts say the missile proliferation statistics almost certainly refer to North Korea.
"So great that oil prices are falling (thank you President T)," Trump wrote — almost certainly referring to himself, and not the London-based rap musician, @Prez_T (warning explicit content).
In fact, the signs almost certainly referred to sugar-beet; even so, to equate "betteraves" with those other non-edible road-threats such as "gravillons," "chutes de pierres" and "chaussée déformée" seemed a little contemptuous.
The IAAF will almost certainly refer the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, which will examine the evidence and reach a judgment that is final and binding.
When historians come to write about the digital transformation currently engulfing the book-publishing world, they will almost certainly refer to Amanda Hocking, writer of paranormal fiction who in the past 18 months has emerged from obscurity to bestselling status entirely under her own self-published steam.
