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Discover LudwigThe phrase "already refer" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to indicate a prior reference but lacks proper grammatical structure.
Example: "As I mentioned earlier, I already refer to the guidelines in my report."
Alternatives: "have already mentioned" or "have previously referred".
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The state's curriculum standards already refer to gambling "and helping students learn the negative effects of gambling over time," said Richard Vespucci, a department spokesman.
Documents filed by Dr. Hatfill's lawyers already refer to the forms as "Plame waivers," as if they were an established legal tool.
Then again, it knows its social workers and advice officers already refer people to the food bank on an ad hoc basis, referrals which are expected to increase in number as benefit cuts hit home in coming months.
Many observers, however, already refer to Sarwan as "the future West Indies captain", as if his graduation from the vice-captaincy is written in the stars, rather than simply in the selectors' notebooks.
It will be harder to manipulate results for searches of the name of a candidate who has already been widely covered in the news and widely discussed in the blogosphere, because so many links and so many pages already refer to that particular name.
The railyard would replace a handful of trucking and other industrial companies that sit on the large plot of land just behind the working class residential neighborhood of West Long Beach, which local residents already refer to as the "diesel death zone" because of its proximity to so many trucks.
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Anyway, he adds, many people were already referring to the agency by its initials.
Mr. Cain's traveling aide, Nathan Naidu, already refers to him as Cornbread on the internal campaign schedule.
(Bakst was already referring to him, in letters, as "that fat spider").
The home affairs committee has already referred Hinton and Jones to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Her congregation has followed her fledgling medical career closely and already refers to her as Dr. Johnson.
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